“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
“We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.”
“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
“Children are the anchors of a mother's life.”
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
“Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.”
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”
“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”