Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

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Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

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There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

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