Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather wha

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. – Thomas Carlyle

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Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. – Theodor Adorno

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough. – Emily Dickinson

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Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself. – Walter Anderson

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Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created. – Osho

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