It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. _ Vince Lombardi

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau

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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. - Hunter S. Thompson

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If you're afraid of failing you won't get very far

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ― Soren Kierkegaard

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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. ― Marcus Aurelius

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