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  If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Success, Attitude

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Flavor, Ifs, Cease

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. 80), 1963.

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Success, Education

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• My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Fathers Day, Children, Dad

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• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Humility, Pride

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.

  Kaskade

  Music, Kids, Intelligent

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• The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer,
  The headstones thicken along the way;
  And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger
  For those who walk with us day by day.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Night, Stronger, Way

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.602, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Character develops itself in the stream of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Streams, Good Character

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• The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Death, Writing

  The Little Minister (1891) vol. 1, ch. 1

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  All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Optimistic, Bored, Doe

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

  Graham Hill

  Inspirational, Relationship, Happiness

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• If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from May 11, 2010

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• Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

  Clarice Lispector

  Saying Yes, Novelists, Molecules

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

  James M. Barrie

  Drinking, Opportunity, Knows

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• Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

  Richard Branson

  People, Balance, Would Be

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• Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

  Stephen Hawking

  Funny, Science, Would Be

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

  Hypatia

  Truth, Lying, Doors

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• Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

  Bob Marley

  Music, Sadness, Eye

  Bob Marley (1998). “The Best of Bob Marley (Songbook)”, p.37, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

  Lewis Mumford

  Elderly, Littles, Forgotten

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• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Death, Thoughtful

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.134, Prestwick House Inc

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• It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Philosophy, Being Alone

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• Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

  Francis Beaumont

  March, Graves, Our Lives

  "The Humorous Lieutenant". Play by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Act III, scene 5, line 76, 1647.

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