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- Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
- Kathleen Norris
- I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
- Gloria Naylor
- Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
- David Searls
- It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
- Unknown
- In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
- Unknown
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
- Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
- An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
- Keller
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