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“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
― Ashleigh Brilliant

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front