Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ― Bertrand Russell

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Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this. - Marianne Williamson

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The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates

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Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon

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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean

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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.- Michael Jordan

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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.- James Cameron

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. - Charles R. Swindoll

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In order to write about life first you must live it. – Ernest Hemingway

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