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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
― Charles Schultz

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
― Charlie Schultz

“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”
― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
― George Orwell

“CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.”
― Bill Watterson

“HOBBES:
Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.”
― Bill Watterson

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein

“Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”
― Henry Rollins

“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Life is too short when you think of the length of death”
― Sean Mangan

“Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.”
― Glen Cook, Shadow Games

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
― Danny Kaye

“When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.”
― Diablo Cody

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…”
― Dione Lucas

“Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.”
― Annie Dillard

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
― Anthony Robbins

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living