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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
You�ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.
Life is just this: a chain of good and bad accidents, without chaining logic, or reason; we have to look at it face to face with courage and think, without fainting, that our time will come, that there will be a day where we will be able to sleep, not hearing, not seeing, and not understanding anything.
Correspondence (1926)
There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The 1st is �Where am I going?� and the 2nd is �Who will go with me?� If you ever get these questions in the wrong order , you are in trouble.�
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
The Ethics of Ambiguity
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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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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