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  • "It's a shallow life that doesn't have any scars."
    By: Garrison Keillor
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  • "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are to really living."
    By: Gail Sheehy
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  • "We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow."
    By: Fulton Oursler
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  • "Would you keep a chive on your tooth just because you enjoyed last night's potato?"
    By: From the television show Boston Common
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  • "Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings."
    By: From the movie Mansfield Park
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  • "Jack Palance: Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit. Billy Crystal: Yeah, but what's that one thing? Jack Palance: That's what you've got to figure out."
    By: From the movie City Slickers
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  • "Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you… Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition."
    By: Florida Scott-Maxwell
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  • "The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."
    By: Florence Scovel Shinn
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  • "Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."
    By: Euripides, Alexander
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  • "Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."
    By: Euripides
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  • "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
    By: Erich Fromm
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  • "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain."
    By: Emily Dickinson
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  • "If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead."
    By: Emerson, Journals, 1827
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  • "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
    By: Elwyn Brooks White
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  • "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
    By: Eleanor Roosevelt
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  • "With every breath of air we breathe, every time we enjoy a flower, a leaf or a sunset, every time we pet our animal friends or hug a loved one, we strike out against terrorism. There is no angry word we can utter that will so unsettle those hate filled souls as knowing that civilized human beings still appreciate life. It is our duty to those whose lives have been taken and those that will join them that we appreciate what we have. It is important that we stand united and let them know that we know we defeat them, with every breath of air we breathe."
    By: Edwin S. Purcell
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  • "Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race."
    By: William S. Burroughs
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  • "Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."
    By: William S. Burroughs
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  • "A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
    By: Julie Burchill
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  • "Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
    By: Plato Greek philosopher (427 BC - 347 BC)
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  • "At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death."
    By: Cesare Pavese
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  • "It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child."
    By: Liza Minnelli
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  • "A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far."
    By: Alice Meynell
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  • "Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."
    By: Norman Mailer
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