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Life is more than not dying. Every living creature is born; it grows and dies. The pattern is the same, regardless of the span allotted. You build between the beginning and the end. What you build is yours. Nothing else is.

Tom Deaderick, Flightpack

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Would you actually believe that you had committed your foolish acts in order to spare your son from committing them too? And could you in any way protect your son from Sansara? How could you? By means of teachings, prayer, admonition? My dear, have you entirely forgotten that story, that story containing so many lessons, that story about Siddhartha, a Brahman's son, which you once told me here on this very spot? Who has kept the Samana Siddhartha safe from Sansara, from sin, from greed, from foolishness? Were his father's religious devotion, his teachers warnings, his own knowledge, his own search able to keep him safe? Which father, which teacher had been able to protect him from living his life for himself, from soiling himself with life, from burdening himself with guilt, from drinking the bitter drink for himself, from finding his path for himself? Would you think, my dear, anybody might perhaps be spared from taking this path? That perhaps your little son would be spared, because you love him, because you would like to keep him from suffering and pain and disappointment? But even if you would die ten times for him, you would not be able to take the slightest part of his destiny upon yourself.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

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...I've had a lot of time to think about this, and yes, we could go down your route. The difficult, painful one, because, let's face it, Ellie, you're a fan of the hard way through. Or, we could, slowly but surely, try to forgive each other for all the mistakes we've made and the hurt we've caused each other. None of us sitting here is innocent...

Harper Bliss, At the Water's Edge

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To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

Michael Foley, The Age Of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy

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Do what you love and the rest will come.

Romi Grossberg, The 5-Minute Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Your Journey Your Journal

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The truth is sealed. Life goes on. Till one day, history changed... Like thief in the night, aliens invade human. Chaos happens prior to the new order of coexistence. The truth is sealed. Life goes on. Till one day, history changed.

Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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What others say about you in front of you is not always veracious, find out what they are saying behind you.

Mohith Agadi

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We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Thornton Wilder

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In this era where you can be anything you want to be, it is very alluring to miss the most important mark in life - fulfillment and meaning; Remember that, what you can do may not be necessarily what you are called to do

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Gary Rohrmayer

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We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

Leonard F. Peltier

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It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!

C. JoyBell C.

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Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any random manner, but will perish unless he lives as his nature requires, so he is free to seek his happiness in any mindless fraud, but the torture of frustration is all he will find, unless he seeks the happiness proper to man. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

A.D. Posey

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I do not fear death.I fear dying incomplete

Levon Peter Poe

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We ought to live heaven on earth, clean environment, the beauty of blissful realms.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind