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“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” — Mark Twain

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

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

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“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.” — Corita Kent

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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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“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.” — Albert Camus

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“When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.” — Oscar Wilde

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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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“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.” — Samuel Butler

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“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.” — Albert Einstein

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“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.” — Oscar Wilde

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“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.” — Tony Robbins

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“Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?” — Tony Robbins

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“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” — Paulo Coelho

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“It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.” — Tupac Shakur

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“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” — Keri Russell

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“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” — Lewis Carroll

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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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