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Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a 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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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw 
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is telling the truth;
that is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
"We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?" asked Piglet.
"Even longer," Pooh answered.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
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Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
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Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
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Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
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Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
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What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
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Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
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