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  • "Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predictament."
    By: George Santayana
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  • "Everything in life, whether it is happiness, whether it is entertainment, whether it is hardship, is a question of how to look at things."
    By: Spirit of India
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  • "After all, life is a curious mixture of sublime and the ridiculous."
    By: Charles Issac
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  • "Life is the relationship of the this and the that."
    By: Rabindra N. Tagore
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  • "If standard of living is our major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves."
    By: Zig Ziglar Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes
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  • "Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
    By: William James
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  • "Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks."
    By: Will Durant
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  • "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
    By: Wilhelm Stekel
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  • "You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life. We want to make the world work."
    By: Werner Erhard
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  • "What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule…. This is what receives your care and attention--an by definition, your love."
    By: Wayne Muller How, Then, Shall We Live?
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  • "Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don’t complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm."
    By: Warren Wiersbe On Being a Servant of God
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  • "You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."
    By: Walter Hagen
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  • "O to have my life henceforth a poem of new joys! To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on, To be a sailor of the world, bound for all ports, A ship itself, see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air, A swift and swelling ship, full of rich words--full of joys."
    By: Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
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  • "Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how."
    By: Victor Frankl
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  • "The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
    By: Vaclav Havel Letters to Olga
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  • "The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few, is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit."
    By: Unknown From a well-worn clipping preserved in an early note-book Belonging to Mark Twain
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