Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.
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Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your read more
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.
When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.
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There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
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Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age had and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.
[Lat., Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus
Post pucundam juventutem.
Post molestam senectutem.
Nos habetit humus.]
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The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
