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- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
- John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
- She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
- John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969)
- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
- Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
- Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
- Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
- The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
- Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957
- Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
- And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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