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- You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
- Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
- Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.
- Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
- To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
- Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
- Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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