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“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” – Bob Moawad
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“If you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubenstein
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“If there wasn’t mystery, people wouldn’t have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn’t have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.” – Emma Roberts
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
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“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anaïs Nin
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“People on the road to inner light do not find their vocations by asking, what do I want from life? They ask, what is life asking of me? How can I match my intrinsic talent with one of the world’s deep needs?” – David Brooks
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“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.” – Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken
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“There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. It is work that spells the difference in life. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
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“Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he has been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is just like an old time rail journey … delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.” ― Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” – Charles Kingsley
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“There can be no success without enthusiasm. The secret of a full life is lots of enthusiasm, the kind that keeps you fighting and winning over all obstacles–and enjoying every minute of it.” – Alfred Krebs
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“One person has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the person who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his or her life.” – Edward B. Butler
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“No person who is enthusiastic about his or her work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they’re doing.” – Sam Goldwyn
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“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.” – Norman Vincent Peale
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“Enthusiasm is one of life’s greatest qualities, but it must be practiced to become a dominant factor in one’s life. There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” – Norman Vincent Peale
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“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein
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“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed soul; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Life is an exciting adventure, or it is nothing.” – Hellen Keller
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“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths, himself a light.” – Felix Adler
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“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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“There are no limitations to what you can do, except the limitations of your own mind as to what you cannot do. Don’t think you cannot; think you can. life moves in one direction only-and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now-and from this point we must proceed: not from where we were, not from where we wish we were-but from where we are.” – Richard L Evans
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“This I know well: that the chief part of every life consists of small things…blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-by-day events; sunshine on the fields, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home.” – David Grayson
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“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.” – Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer
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“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. the longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is the power to harm us.” – Voltaire
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“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.” – John Jay
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“Sometimes and under some conditions it is possible to escape from many things-from prison walls, from false friends, from bad company, from boring people, from old environments-but never from ourselves. When we lie down at night, we are there with our own thoughts-whether we like them or not. When we wake in the morning, we are still there-whether we like us or not. The most persistent thing in life (and, we have no doubt, in death also) is our own consciousness of ourselves. This being so, there is no more pitiable person than he who is uncomfortable in his own company-no matter where he runs, or how fast, or how far.” – Richard L Evans
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The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that outlasts it. William James
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Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone. The dignity and nobility of his life, as well as his happiness, depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries, and the scenery through which it travels. – John Fort Newton
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – Richard L Evans
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is full of obstacle illusions. – Grant Frazier
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Life is no brief candle to me. it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got 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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. – Sophocles
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Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. – Woody Allen
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Some day, in the years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now…now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. – Phillips Brooks
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If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau
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Life gives to all the choice, you can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish, you can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or you can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, progressive, useful, colorful, rich. – Spencer W Kimball
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