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- The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
- Marya Mannes
- The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.
- Fitzgerald
- I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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