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Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.

—Jim Morrison

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No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

—John Muir

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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

—Norman Fischer

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Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.

—Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

—Dan Millman

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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

—Samuel Butler

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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

—Og Mandino

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By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

—Thomas Moore

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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

—Henry David Thoreau

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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

—William Ralph Inge

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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

—Ralph W. Sockman

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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

—Johann Georg von Zimmermann

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One should count each day a separate life.

—Seneca

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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

—Cory Doctorow

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