"The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task."

Buddha on effort
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"The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other."

Ma-Tsu on zen
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"The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke."

Unknown, Source on jokes and jokers   

"Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?"

Shaw, George Bernard on jokes and jokers
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"There is no sin except stupidity."

Wilde, Oscar on sin
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

Camus, Albert on sin
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on death
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"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on age and aging
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on deeds and good deeds
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"The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on disability
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"Health is my expected heaven."

Keats, John on health   

"Good friends are good for your health."

Sarason, Irwin on friends and friendship   

"Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!"

Carlyle, Thomas on health
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"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."

Brooks, Phillips on life
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"The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual."

Robbins, Anthony on health
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."

Hudgins, Ken on purpose
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"Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters."

Presser, Ross on life
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty."

Unknown, Source on joy
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"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."

Desai, Morarji on attitude
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."

Lakein, Alan on time
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"Don't go through life, grow through life."

Butterworth, Eric on growth
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