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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?”
― Steven Novella