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• Just 'cause somethin' ain't been done Don't mean it can't be did.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mean, Done, Causes

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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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• 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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• Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny, Jobs, Work

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• When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Failure

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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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• 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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• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Life, Mother, Horny

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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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• May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Happiness, Learning

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Being Single, Positivity

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

  Frank Sinatra

  Baby, Fear, Lessons

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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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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• People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Life, People, Lesson Learned

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.75, Penguin

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• In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Order, Important

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• There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

  Maya Angelou

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life Is Short, Things In Life

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• The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

  Peter Shaffer

  Life, People, Inspire

  Peter Shaffer (1982). “The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer”, Random House Value Pub

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• I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Used, Get Over

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

  Haruki Murakami

  Struggle, Return, Facts

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.173, Random House

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• And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Change, I Hate You

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 25, 2016

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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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• 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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• 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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• You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

  Trip Hawkins

  Motivational, Believe, Nuts

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