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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

  Horace

  Worry, Anxiety, Literature

  "Carmina", II. 10. 17, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 93-96, 1922.

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• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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• Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Laughter, Grief

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.

  Carole King

  Life, Views, Vision

  Song: Tapestry, Album: Tapestry, 1971

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• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sympathy, Death, Pain

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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• What comes from the heart goes to the heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Attitude, Heart, Angel

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “Seven lectures on Shakespeare and Milton”, p.45

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• Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Expression, Joy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.701, GENERAL PRESS

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Death, Hands

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• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Art, Kindness

  'The World's Need'

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Baby, Sleep

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - T-SHIRT

  Darynda Jones

  Funny, Birthday, Humorous

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.21, St. Martin's Press

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Afterlife, Infancy Is

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Dreams are more powerful than facts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Dream, Powerful

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

  Plato

  Death, Blessing, Men

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• We pass through this world but once.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Helping Others, Giving

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Alive, Leisure

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Life, Death, Fear

  Bertolt Brecht, Maksim Gorky (1978). “The mother”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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