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~ As you make your way through life, let this ever be your goal, keep your eye upon the dougnut and not upon the hole. ~

Anon x

~ Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~

Alfred Adler

~ We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. ~

Edwin Markham

~ Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

~ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.n ~

Helen Keller

~ The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. ~

William James 1842

~ You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life. ~

MacRina Wiederkehr

~ The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own--even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being ~

Katherine Anne Porter

~ May the sun bring you new energies by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away any worries you may have. May gentle breezes refresh your soul and all the days of your life, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty. ~

Unknown

~ I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses. ~

Bill Moyers

~ Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me,' and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in the enjoyment of life. ~

Ed Hays

~ I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again. ~

William Penn 1644

~ Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, musicthe world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ~

Henry Miller 1891

~ Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. ~

Benjamin Franklin 1706

~ I believe every person is created as the steward of his or her destiny with great power for a specific purpose to share with others, through service, a reverence for life in a spirit of love. ~

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~ If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ~

Arthur Schlesinger

~ Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived life of their parents. ~

Carl Jung 1875

~ The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise you own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. ~

John Burroughs

~ You will give yourself peace of mind if you perform every act of your life as if it were you last. ~

Marcus Aurelius 121

~ Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~

Henry Miller

~ Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late. ~

Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883

~ Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803

~ You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. ~

E. B. White

~ Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ~

Elie Wiesel

~ There is a woman who spent her life loving that evil creature: she died. I'm sure she's a saint in heaven right now. You are going to kill me the way he killed that woman.That is what's in store for all of us who have unselfish hearts. ~

Arthur Rimbaud

~ Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? ~

Bob Marley

~ Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. ~

Linus Pauling

~ I look back on my life like a good day's work; it was done and I am satisfied with it. ~

Grandma Moses

~ Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. ~

Denis Waitley

~ Hope is one of those things in life you cannot do without. ~

LeRoy Douglas

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