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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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Within every difficulty lies opportunity.

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—George Bernard Shaw
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

—Abraham Lincoln
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Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.

—American Indian Proverb
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind....Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth...I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

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If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

—Joseph Campbell
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

—Arthur Schopenhauer (1851)
If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

—I Timothy 6:3
For the greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

—Alan Watts
Human body is attained with great difficulties. Being born in human species is the only way out of the prison of birth and death. If one misses this opportunity out of negligence, lethargy and hesitation one is bound to undergo, forever, the plight of birth and death. Hence rise, awake, attain eternal peace and bliss by being in contact with the best of mankind.

—Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (Guru Dev)
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours

—Swedish Proverb
Life is lived in moments. And in a moment, all of life is, and was and will be. Period.

—Laurence Overmire
Death solves all problems. No person, no problem.

—Josef Stalin
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

—Henry Miller

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