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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. -Henry Ford
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Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing.

Yiddish proverb
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Robert Frost
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. -Confucius
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally 'Famous' Amos
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare
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You only live a short time...and you are dead a long time.. -Johan Huizinga
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Tennessee Williams
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams
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If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. -Ann Landers
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.

Ann Landers
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The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.

Michel de Montaigne
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. -Alfred North Whitehead
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Tom Peters
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Douglas Adams
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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. -Deepak Chopra
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Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror.

Frank Tyger
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The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. -Emmet Fox
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus
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Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. -G. K. Chesterton
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