Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

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No one you love is ever truly lost.

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Live it up so you can write it down.

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

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