"Every day can be a platform to get you closer to your mountaintop. And yet, too many people live life by accident."
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"Live life as if its rigged in your favor."
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"The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you."
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"I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool."
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"Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them."
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"It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones."
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"Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the mechanics that allow people to have more effective, loving lives, lives of more connection, community, and communion."
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"You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?"
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"Philosophy is an act of living."
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"You're living life in real time, man, and we' ve got a good amount of work to do for each other. Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes."
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"Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends"
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"in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience."
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"The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality."
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"All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live."
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"Reach for the sky, set goals, live life to fullest and always remember to wake up each day with a smile."
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"If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s."
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"My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined, and I have had a ball doing it."
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"I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms."
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"The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his."
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"I live life and I don't take it for granted."
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