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The purpose of our lives is to be happy. -Dalai Lama.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. -Mae West
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. -Oscar Wilde
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -Andre Gide
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - J.K. Rowling
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. -Mark Twain
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. -Allen Saunders
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -douglas adams
Everything you can imagine is real. -Pablo Picasso
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. - Dr. Seuss
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. -Dr. Seuss
Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are. -Markus Zusak
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. -Albert Einstein
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. -John Green
Reality continues to ruin my life. - Bill Watterson
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. -John Green
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time - J.K. Rowling
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. -Khaled Hosseini
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. -Mark Twain
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. -Chuck Palahniuk
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. -Albert Einstein
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. - Chuck Palahniuk
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid. -George V. Higgins
Death ends a life, not a relationship. -Mitch Albom
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. -Gustave Flaubert
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. -Michael Cunningham
Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi
May you live every day of your life. -Jonathan Swift
Get busy living or get busy dying. - Stephen King
These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. - J.M. Barrie
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. -May Sarton
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. -Oscar Wilde
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. - Rick Riordan
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. -Cassandra Clare
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Søren Kierkegaard
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. -Stephen King
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. -Walt Disney Company
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur C. Clarke
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. -Albert Camus
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime... - Khaled Hosseini
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. -William Goldman
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. - Albert Schweitzer
Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you rec - Lao Tzu
Some people have lives; some people have music. -John Green
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. - Steve Maraboli
Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. - Stephanie Klein
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. -Langston Hughes
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. -D.H. Lawrence
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -Nicolas Chamfort
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. - G.K. Chesterton
The more I see, the less I know for sure. - John Lennon
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. -Abraham Lincoln
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson
Life is to be enjoyed, not endured. - Gordon B. Hinckley
I go to seek a Great Perhaps. -François Rabelais
Live to the point of tears. -Albert Camus
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited. - Jorge Luis Borges
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time. - Chuck Palahniuk
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories. -haruki murakami
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC -kurt vonnegut
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. -Marcus Aurelius
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. -Jonathan Safran Foer
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Logan Pearsall Smith
To say goodbye is to die a little. -Raymond Chandler
Even death has a heart. - Markus Zusak
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. - Jeffrey Eugenides
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. -Steve Maraboli
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. -Emily Dickinson
f you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. - Émile Zola
The past has no power over the present moment. - Eckhart Tolle
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. -Chuck Palahniuk
You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. - C. JoyBell C.
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same. - Jay Asher
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection -Sharon Salzberg
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. - Terry Pratchett
You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. -Cassandra Clare
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. -François de La Rochefoucauld
You can have it all. Just not all at once. -Oprah Winfrey
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. - Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries. -A.A. Milne
The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. - Stephanie Perkins
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. -Confucius
In a time of destruction, create something. - Maxine Hong Kingston
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE. -Terry Pratchett
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. -Sun Tzu
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. -Steve Maraboli
There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth. -Khaled Hosseini
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting. -Sarah Dessen
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. -Peter Shaffer
How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. -Kurt Vonnegut
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. -Robert Louis Stevenson
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. -Yann Martel
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats. -Albert Schweitzer
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. -Bob Marley
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. -Bob Marley
