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• If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

  Jim Carrey

  Karma, Pain, Regret

  "Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful'". www.cbsnews.com. November 18, 2004.

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• Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

  Shel Silverstein

  Silly, Kitchen, World

  Shel Silverstein (1999). “The World of Shel Silverstein Fabric Banner”

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• That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Groups, Variables, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.54, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.

  Shel Silverstein

  Sleep, Bird, Worms

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• And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

  Steve Jobs

  Encouraging, Bigger, Knows

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.54, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable.

  April Ross

  Motivational, Sports, Confidence

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• The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

  Nancy Mitford

  Family, Being Thankful, Essentials

  The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)

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• Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Motivational, Singleness Of Purpose, Essentials

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• Strive for excellence, not perfection.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life, Perfection, Excellence

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

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• Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Frozen, Assets

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.359, New Directions Publishing

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• How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em.

  Shel Silverstein

  Friendship, Real Friends, Good Friend

  Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”

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• If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it.

  Shel Silverstein

  Book, Writing, Want

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• Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Care, Reputation, Assets

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Sometimes

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

  Jose Marti

  Bread Of Life, Doors, Giving

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free.

  Lenore Terr

  Past, Self, Play

  Lenore Terr (2000). “Beyond Love and Work: Why Adults Need to Play”, Touchstone Books

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• Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

  Patti Davis

  Grief, Bereavement, Bed

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• It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Best Job, Track

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

  Willa Cather

  Inspirational, Summer, Nature

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

  Bob Richards

  Motivational, Athlete, Cutting

  Bob Richards (2009). “The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph”, p.74, Revell

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Greatness

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• I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Years, Roles, Psychedelic

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2012). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952”, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

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• Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Pay, Attention

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Sep 17, 2016

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