"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Keller, Helen on Pessimism
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"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

Ash, Mary Kay on Limitation
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"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."

Ash, Mary Kay on Risk
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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Alcott, Louisa May on Vision
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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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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Adversity
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"Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life."

Unknown, Source on Hope
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on Action
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"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on Friends and Friendship
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"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."

Angelou, Maya on Jokes and Jokers
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"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail."

Navajo, Edward A. on Beauty
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."

Belafonte, Harry on Censorship
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"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams."

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro on Life and Living
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"The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on Scholars and Scholarship
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"She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women."

Atwood, Margaret on Men and Women
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"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."

Sade, Marquis De on Women
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"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Chastity
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Angelou, Maya on Aggression
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on Solitude
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"Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands."

Better, Cathy on Life and Living
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on Life and Living
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on Life and Living
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"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."

Buechner, Frederick on Life and Living
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"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."

Boulanger, Nadia on Life and Living
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"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

Billings, Josh on Life and Living
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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on Life and Living
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"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now."

Baez, Joan on Life and Living
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on Life and Living
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."

Aurelius, Marcus on Life and Living
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"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."

Wilde, Oscar on Fantasy
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"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."

Seuss, Dr. on Fantasy
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"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

Joubert, Joseph on Imagination
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"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Imagination
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"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."

Brown, Les on Imagination
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"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

Bunuel, Luis on Imagination
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on Books - Reading
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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

Hobbes, Thomas on Absurdity
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"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."

Heine, Heinrich on Adaptability
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on Age and Aging
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"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."

Beauvoir, Simone De on Age and Aging
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