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

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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling. ― bell hooks

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The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates

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Loss is the cost of loving ― Amanda Gorman

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Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ― George Burns

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But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

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It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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

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Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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