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In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite pos...

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Life is stranger than any of us expected,There is a somber, imponderable fate.Enigma rules, and the ...

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She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She ...

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The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when "Hawk" Dawson actually doffed his red "C" cap to me...

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Richard FordThe Lay of the Land

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I alm...

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There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life h...

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Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty gr...

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Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t...

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Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rat...

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, ...

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well...

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, n...

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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened t...

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The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's...

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I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find caree...

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An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be vi...

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I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end...

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Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes,Dislodging the earth crumbsAnd making crus...

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At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life...

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You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm inte...

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When life doesn't make sense, we can still have peace.

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspec...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life ha...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By res...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to di...

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I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, i...

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I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't so...

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The First BookOpen it.Go ahead, it won't bite.Well. . . maybe a little.More a nip, like. A tingle.It...

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Rita DoveOn the Bus With Rosa Parks

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

Against Self-PityIt gets you nowhere but deeper intoyour own shit--pure misery a luxuryone never lea...

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I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

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Rita DoveOn the Bus With Rosa Parks

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worseis to sit here and do nothing.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't...

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Rita Mae BrownRubyfruit Jungle

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the...

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Life is more fun if you play games.

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see...

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An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...

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May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because the...

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Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self...

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My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to apprec...

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Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery ...

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From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organ...

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I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being a...

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's busines...

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A lion may die of an ass's kick.

O Life! thou art a galling load Along a rough a weary road to wretches such as I.

If there is another world he lives in bliss If there is none he made the best of this.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

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Robert BurnsCollected Poems of Robert Burns

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature ga...

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I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without havi...

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It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not ...

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Robert E. HowardQueen of the Black Coast

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparati...

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The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the m...

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...

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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me...

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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...

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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.And so I dream of going back to be.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they a...

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

For, dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true?Cling to it long enough, and n...

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Robert FrostCollected Poems of Robert Frost

These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And...

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Robert FrostStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...

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Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no...

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Robert FulghumWhat On Earth Have I Done?: Stories

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

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Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to...

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Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

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Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

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Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to...

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Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

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Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea an...

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Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to...

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Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

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