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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives and to so live that the place he lives is proud of him
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself
For he lives twice who can at once employ the present well, and even the past enjoy
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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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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