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You can go through life and make new friends every year — every month practically — but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.

—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

—Samuel Butler

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Sometimes fifteen minutes is all it takes for your entire life to change.

—Bella Andre in It Must Be Your Love

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Life isn't always about logic and reasons—sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships.

—Julie James in Just the Sexiest Man Alive

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When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

—John Scalzi

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

—Barbara Hall

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

—Ben Stein

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

—Boris Pasternak

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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

—Christopher Morley

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

—Condoleeza Rice

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

—Dorothy Parker

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

—Daniel Akst

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

—Diane Ackerman

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

—Dick Werthimer

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