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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Gail Sheehy To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Oscar Wilde To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Yann Martel To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
    Source: Het leven van Pi p.46
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abbie M. Dale To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
    Abbie M. Dale
     
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  • Bertrand Russell To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • G. Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
    G. Woodberry
     
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  • George Edward Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
    Source: The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Martin Luther To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Bodhidharma To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Marlon Brando To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
    Marlon Brando
    American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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