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“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
Og Mandino
“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”
Og Mandino
“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.”
Og Mandino
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery
“One is very crazy when in love.”
Sigmund Freud
“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Sigmund Freud
“Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.”
Sigmund Freud
“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
Sigmund Freud
“The goal of all life is death.”
Sigmund Freud
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Sigmund Freud
“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”
Sigmund Freud
“We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.”
Sigmund Freud
“I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.”
Arthur Hailey
“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”
Dale Carnegie
“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”
Dale Carnegie
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
Dale Carnegie
“Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.”
Dale Carnegie
“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”
John Barrymore
“The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.”
John Barrymore
“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”
John Barrymore
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
Buddha
“Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”
Buddha
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
Buddha
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
Buddha
