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- If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
- Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
- Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
- William Lyon Phelps
- Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
- Mary Hemingway
- Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- ...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
- Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932
- The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Henry IV part I'
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