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| Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. | | Henry Miller | |
| Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. | | Richard Bach | |
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| Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. | | Viktor Frankl | |
| Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. | | Voltaire | |
| Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself | | George Santayana | |
| Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. | | Robert Frost | |
Embrace nothing:
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill your father.
Only live your life as it is,
Not bound to anything. | | Buddha | |
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| Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. | | Vincent van Gogh | |