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"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

Brecht, Bertolt on life
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"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."

Twain, Mark on losers and losing
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"The minute you start talking about what your going to do if you lose, you have lost."

Shultz, George on losers and losing
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"Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done."

Riley, Pat on losers and losing    Share

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

Battista, Orlando A. on love
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

Motto on losers and losing
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]"

Bible on life
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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
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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
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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"Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain."

Brown, William Adams on life
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"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."

Leacock, Stephen B. on life    Share

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

Curie, Madame Marie on life
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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Crowfoot on life    Share

"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

Burton, Robert on love
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"While there's life, there's hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on life
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."

Carlyle, Thomas on life    Share

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."

Campbell, Joseph on life
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"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man."

Butler, Samuel on life    Share

"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it."

Basset, Lucinda on life
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

Hemingway, Ernest on life
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?"

Guest, Judith on love
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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

Angelou, Maya on love
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"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."

Hemingway, Ernest on airplane and aviation    Share

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

Hemingway, Ernest on economy and economics
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Hemingway, Ernest on defeat
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest on adversity
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"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

Mccarthy, Mary on life
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