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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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.

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People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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Good is not good, where better is expected

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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens

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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. — Zig Ziglar

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