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The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
- Alexander Pope
While the laughter of joy is in
full harmony with our deeper life,
the laughter of amusement
should be kept apart from it.
The danger is too great of thus learning
to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery,
and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
- Lewis Carroll
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At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show
by what road it will pass to destruction,
to wit: by consolidation of power first,
and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
- Thomas Jefferson
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered.
He consists only of one quality: witnessing.
This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality.
Witness that you are not the body.
Witness that you are not the mind.
Witness that you are only a witness.
As the witnessing deepens,
you start becoming drunk with the divine.
That is what is called ecstasy.
- Osho
A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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 will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
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A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
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Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
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Life is in our point-of-view.
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Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
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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
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
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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
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
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Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
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Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
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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
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
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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
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
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I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in our Perspective.
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