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Theme: Life
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In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less.

Walt Whitman / Leaves of Grass

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain / Following the Equator

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde / The Soul of Man under Socialism

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde / De Profundis

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.

Charlotte Brontë / Jane Eyre (Preface)

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft / A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

If someone asks about my abode, I reply: The east edge of the Milky Way. Like a drifting cloud, bound by nothing, I just let go.

Ryokan / Poetry

My legacy — What will it be? Flowers in spring, The cuckoo in summer, And the crimson maples Of autumn.

Ryokan / Poetry

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Dogen / Shobogenzo

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw / Attributed

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw / Attributed

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi / Attributed

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt / First Inaugural Address

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson / Virginibus Puerisque

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson / Essays

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

J. M. Barrie / Peter Pan

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau / Walden

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau / Walden

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / Society and Solitude (1870)

Forever is composed of Nows.

Emily Dickinson / Forever is composed of Nows (c. 1863)
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