Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

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All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. ― Louisa May Alcott

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It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ― William Shakespeare

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You are the artist of your own life. Sketch it well.

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People readily believe what they want to believe.

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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An unshared happiness is not happiness.

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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world. ― George Washington

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