Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

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It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. - Terry Pratchett

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Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. - Terry Pratchett

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And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death. ― Terry Pratchett

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Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. ― Terry Pratchett

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The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. - Terry Pratchett

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Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. - Terry Pratchett

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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. - Terry Pratchett

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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - Terry Pratchett

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