"Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try."
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"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
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"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."
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"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
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"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."
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"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything."
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
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"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
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"I drink to make other people more interesting."
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
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"I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be."
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"Being against evil doesn't make you good."
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."
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"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be."
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"War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule."
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"The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire."
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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
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"The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found."
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"Courage is grace under pressure."
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