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«The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.»
«The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.»
«The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.»
Author: Leon Edel | About: Biography, Life | Keywords: biographer, biographers, Inner House
«The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.»
«The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin | About: Life | Keywords: adding, in suspense, resource, suspense
«The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.»
«The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular»
«The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.»
«The course of true love never did run smooth.»