I’d thought that it was life itself that had ground me down – that my sadness stemmed from spiritual malaise. After spending two hours with a book, and finding it more pleasurable than two years of real life, I’d remember again that life had no meaning, and sink back into despair.

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Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible — Tony Robbins

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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness". ― Clementine Holzinger

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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. — Thucydides

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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. ― Hunter S. Thompson

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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

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If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. — Oprah Winfrey

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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