Life
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living
Most of the luxuries and many of the so called comforts of life are not only dispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit - not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them
Life is a horizontal fall
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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