"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on Expectation
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"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."

Benedict, Ruth on Faith
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"Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it."

Bernanos, Georges on Faith
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"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy."

Twain, Mark on Biography
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"I think we're here for each other."

Burnett, Carol on Life and Living
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"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

Barton, Bruce on Courage
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"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."

Whitman, Walt on Independence
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"Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh."

Twain, Mark on Happiness
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Dissatisfaction
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on Action
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"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels."

Thaves, Bob on Dance and Dancing
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"And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on Friends and Friendship
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on Farewells
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on Achievement
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"Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass."

Santaguida, Paul on Life and Living
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"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."

Saroyan, William on Life and Living
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"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on Life and Living
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"This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God."

Ovid on Life and Living
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"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on Life and Living
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"Life is but a moment, death also is but another."

Schuller, Robert H. on Life and Living
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"Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth."

Purkey, William on Life and Living
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"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Life and Living
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"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

Robbins, Anthony on Life and Living
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"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

Radner, Gilda on Life and Living
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."

Hagen, Uta on Acting and Actors
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

Wooden, John on Character
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on Mistakes
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"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

Jong, Erica on Talent
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"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Life and Living
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"The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."

Wilde, Oscar on Acting and Actors
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

Wilder, Thornton on Acting and Actors
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"I have to act to live."

Olivier, Sir Lawrence on Acting and Actors
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"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant."

Jackson, Glenda on Acting and Actors
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"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on Imagination
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on Life and Living
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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 and Living
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"Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

Mandino, Og on Life and Living
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"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on Life and Living
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"If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on Life and Living
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

Fulghum, Robert on Life and Living
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