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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to read more
One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length read more
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and read more
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
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We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
[Fr., On entre, on crie,
Et c'est la vie!
On baille, on sort,
Et c'est la mort!]