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  • #1
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #2
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #3
    Bill Watterson
    “Reality continues to ruin my life.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #4
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
    John Greenleaf Whittier

  • #5
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #6
    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    Gilda Radner

  • #7
    “The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
    Lily Tomlin

  • #8
    Bill Watterson
    “I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #9
    Woody Allen
    “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
    Woody Allen

  • #10
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #11
    Mother Teresa
    “Live simply so others may simply live.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #12
    Charles M. Schulz
    “I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
    Charles Schultz

  • #13
    Woody Allen
    “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
    Woody Allen

  • #14
    William Goldman
    “Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #15
    Nicholas Sparks
    “And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.”
    Nicholas Sparks

  • #16
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Art is the proper task of life. ”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #17
    Bill Watterson
    “If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.”
    Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

  • #18
    Dale Carnegie
    “Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #19
    Margaret Peterson Haddix
    “Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.”
    Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Brave
    tags: life

  • #20
    Anne Lamott
    “It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”
    Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
    tags: life

  • #21
    Tori Amos
    “I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.”
    Tori Amos

  • #22
    Henry Rollins
    “Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”
    Henry Rollins

  • #23
    Conan O'Brien
    “When all else fails, there's always delusion.”
    Conan O'Brien

  • #24
    Erica Jong
    “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
    Erica Jong

  • #25
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

  • #26
    J.M. Barrie
    “Life is a long lesson in humility.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

  • #27
    Douglas Coupland
    “And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.”
    Douglas Coupland, Life After God

  • #28
    Andy Warhol
    “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
    Andy Warhol

  • #29
    James Russell Lowell
    “Fate loves the fearless.”
    James Russell Lowell

  • #30
    Marilynne Robinson
    “Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”
    Marilynne Robinson, Gilead



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