It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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I don't dwell, I'm not a dweller. I just like to keep moving forward, because life is short. _ Shirley Ballas

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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.

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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

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They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! ― Dr. Seuss

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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it. ― Boris Pasternak

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The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Chris McCandless

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