Life
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life
Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth
Beware the barrenness of a busy life
The unexamined life is not worth living
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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