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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Never mistake motion for action.

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The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

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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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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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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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Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

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We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

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