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Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment,
and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible
before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw 
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
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We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
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Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
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Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
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The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
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Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
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Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
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Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
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I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
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Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Life is not supposed to be fair.
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
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When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
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Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
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Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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