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- Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
- Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
- You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
- Vernon Howard
- We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
- Anonymous, Blackfoot chief (c. 1880)
- The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
- Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
- It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
- Garrison Keillor (1942 - ), in Salon.com
- Life is full of obstacle illusions.
- Grant Frazier
- Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
- Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
- Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
- Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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