The unexamined life is not worth living.

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Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect. —Eleanor C. Wood

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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

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The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. ― Karl Marx,

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A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun. ― Lawrence M. Krauss

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Nelson Mandela

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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. – Thornton Wilder

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There isn’t time—so brief is life—for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving—and but an instant, so to speak, for that. — Mark Twain

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That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. ― Philip Pullman

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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water. ― Desmond Tutu

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