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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. - Thomas Jefferson

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. – Thomas Jefferson

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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. – Thomas Jefferson

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Pain
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Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

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Attitude
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying lifes pleasures is like a blacksmiths bellows. He breathes, but does not live. – Proverb

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Always fall in with what youre asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatevers going. Not against: with. – Robert Frost

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There is an unseen life that dreams us. It knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize and we need have no fear of change. – John O’Donohue

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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. – Ramakrishna

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