"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion."

Thoreau, Henry David on Life and Living
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"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

Brecht, Bertolt on Life and Living
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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
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"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 and Living
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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 and Living
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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 and Living
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on Life and Living
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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 and Living
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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 and Living
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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

Curie, Madame Marie on Life and Living
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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 and Living
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"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 and Living
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on Love
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"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments."

Carnegie, Dale on Life and Living
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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 and Living
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"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 and Living
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"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man."

Butler, Samuel on Life and Living
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"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 and Living
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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 and Living
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"Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Murdoch, Iris on Love Ended
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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 Ended
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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 Ended
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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
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"You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it."

Hemingway, Ernest on Fiction
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"It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings."

Hemingway, Ernest on Excellence
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"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 and Living
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