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“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” Jim Henson

“You have only one life to live and it mustn’t be wronged.” Anton Chekhov

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” William James

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.” Oscar Wilde

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” Dale Carnegie

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” John Burroughs

“Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” W. E. B. Du Bois

“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.” Herodotus

“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.” Fran Lebowitz

“Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.” Fran Lebowitz

“One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.” Agatha Christie

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” William Shakespeare

“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” Euripides

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” Erich Fromm

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” Albert Camus