"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

Plath, Sylvia on perspective
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

Williams, Tennessee on suffering
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"A useless life is an early death."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on death
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

Yoda on trying
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"Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Kafka, Franz on understanding
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"Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth."

Twain, Mark on truth   

"My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it."

Lee, Robert E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt."

Heywood, John on happiness   

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

Johnson, Samuel on love
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"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

James, William on philosophers and philosophy
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"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on laughter
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"Habit is a great deadener."

Beckett, Samuel on habit   

"I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am."

Hunt, Trinidad on possessions
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"The best things in life aren't things."

Buchwald, Art on possessions
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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"

Fromm, Erich on possessions
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