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- If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
- Charles Schwab
- The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
- James Taylor
- Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- 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)
- The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1856)
- Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life. "'til now," I told myself, "you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance."
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
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