There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. _ Friedrich Koenig

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam

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To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed. ― Henry David Thoreau

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The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

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Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. ― Helen Keller

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