life

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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

- Mandino, Og

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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

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A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

- Cicero

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

- Dr. David M. Burns

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INTRODUCTION, n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. The introduction attains its most malevolent development in this century, being, indeed, closely related to our political system. Every American being the equal of every other American, it follows that everybody has the right to know everybody else, which implies the right to introduce without request or permission. The Declaration of Independence should have read thus: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, and the right to make that of another miserable by thrusting upon him an incalculable quantity of acquaintances; liberty, particularly the liberty to introduce persons to one another without first ascertaining if they are not already acquainted as enemies; and the pursuit of another's happiness with a running pack of strangers."

- Ambrose Bierce

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Common sense is calculation applied to life.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

- Johnson, Samuel

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

- Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

- Gauguin, Paul

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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

- Edith Hamilton

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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

- George Woodberry

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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

- Samuel Butler

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

- Thomas H. Huxley

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It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

- Torrie, Alfred

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

- Wilde, Oscar

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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

- Eddy, Mary Baker

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

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Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

- Garfield, Charles A.

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We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

- Alan Chadwick

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

- Pliny The Elder