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  • Anton Chekhov All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Sydney Smith All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Greg Anderson Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Confucius Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry David Thoreau City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Walter Benjamin Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Richard Bach Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • John Dryden He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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