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- Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
- In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
- George Matthew Adams
- Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.
- Thomas Szasz
- The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.
- Shirley Trusty Corey
- Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
- Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
- The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)
- Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
- Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'
- Joan McIntosh
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