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To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. – Samuel Butler

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Lifes most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

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Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. – W. H. Auden

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It is a common saying, and in everybodys mouth, that life is but a sojourn. – Plato

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So it allows me to travel, Ill be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what Ive done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience. – Richard Dean Anderson

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We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. – Charles Stanley

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