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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Mark TwainPudd'nhead Wilson

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall h...

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Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "S...

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Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun...

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Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.

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Mark TwainThe Prince and the Pauper

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I...

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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can...

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I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it'...

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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to ...

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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this ...

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I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: N...

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All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...

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You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel ...

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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...

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Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you atten...

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My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

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Martin AmisExperience: A Memoir

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationsh...

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There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxi...

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I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision ...

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life ...

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If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses...

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his ...

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Christian life consists in faith and charity.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning to...

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Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about...

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The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeo...

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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams sh...

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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...

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All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of ...

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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious...

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I t...

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Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and m...

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Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Find a voice in a whisper.

If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to co...

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Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writer...

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Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies toge...

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If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Don't you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?

To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you...

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Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hour...

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Mary Baker EddyScience and Health with Key to the Scriptures

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this...

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She was alone and destitute in a world of pointless carnage. By an eight-hundred-year-old Sepahrdic ...

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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom,...

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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reas...

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Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don...

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When it's over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, t...

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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...

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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary OliverI know, you never intended to be in this world....

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I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wantedmy life to close, a...

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I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close,...

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MYSTERIES, YES Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nouris...

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Mary OliverEvidence: Poems

When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was a bridegroom, tak...

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Mary OliverNew and Selected Poems

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing,and put your li...

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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility ...

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I...

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You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in...

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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morali...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his...

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At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no othe...

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Matt RidleyThe Rational Optimist

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic tru...

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Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of ...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspea...

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Only--but this is rare--When a beloved hand is laid in ours,When, jaded with the rush and glareOf th...

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Matthew ArnoldThe Poems of Matthew Arnold 1849 - 1867

where does creativity come from? Creativity comes from the Universe itself. “There is music and poe...

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Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just ...

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Matthew GoodAt Last There Is Nothing Left to Say

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would ...

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I would love to have kids one day. In fact, I'm pretty good with them. I grew up with five half-sibl...

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Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the...

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No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

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Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time tha...

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I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in li...

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According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to ho...

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We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and oft...

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Matthieu RicardHappiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another...

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The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid o...

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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will...

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An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can neve...

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Our real life is not the life we live, and we feel that our deepest, nay, our most intimate thoughts...

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We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.… All that happen...

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We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.

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Maurice MaeterlinckThe Treasure of the humble

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest ...

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Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of ...

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Max PlanckWhere is Science Going?

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They ...

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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I...

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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for...

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If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the gr...

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You change your life by changing your heart.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif...

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The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of lif...

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May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

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Max LucadoOutlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on eith...

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