Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

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Life’s a marathon, not a sprint. ― Phillip C. McGraw

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. _ Wade Boggs

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Nobody is exempt from the trials of life, but everyone can always find something positive in everything even in the worst of times. ― Roy T. Bennett

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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