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“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford

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“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” — Helen Keller

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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” — Voltaire

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“Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Life itself is the proper binge.” — Julia Child

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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.” — Samuel Butler

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus

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“While there's life, there's hope.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” — Lord Byron

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“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“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

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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.” — Winston Churchill

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“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.” — Conan O'Brien

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“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.” — Aristotle

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“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.” — Muhammad Ali

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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” — Socrates

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“Art is the proper task of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.” — Tony Robbins

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