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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

— Leo Tolstoy

Nothing is worth more than this day.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

— Albert Einstein

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

— Buddha

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

— Leo Tolstoy

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.

— Maya Angelou

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

— Lewis Carroll

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

— Mark Twain

Where there is love there is life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

— Socrates

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

— Marcus Aurelius

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

— Seneca

You can't find peace by avoiding life.

— Virginia Woolf

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Forever is composed of nows.

— Emily Dickinson

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

— Walt Whitman

Without music, life would be a mistake.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

— Søren Kierkegaard

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

— Robert Frost

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