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  • #1
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #4
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #5
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #6
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
    Roy T. Bennett

  • #7
    Vincent van Gogh
    “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #8
    Roy T. Bennett
    “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #9
    “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
    Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

  • #10
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #11
    Lou Holtz
    “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
    Lou Holtz

  • #12
    Roy T. Bennett
    “No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #13
    Hafiz
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    Hafiz

  • #14
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #15
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #16
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #17
    Jane Goodall
    “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
    Jane Goodall

  • #18
    Sharon Salzberg
    “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
    Sharon Salzberg

  • #19
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #20
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

  • #23
    François Rabelais
    “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
    François Rabelais

  • #24
    Sarah Dessen
    “That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #25
    Madeline Miller
    “When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles



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