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«To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.»
Author: Arbie M. Dale | About: Choice, Life
«To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.»
Author: Henry R. Luce (Editor, Publisher) | About: Life | Keywords: The Mission, undertaken
«To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.»
Author: Joe Cordare | About: Life | Keywords: solution, The Question
«To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.»
Author: Kofi Annan | About: Choice, Education, Goals, Life, Living | Keywords: stand for
«To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Life, Solution, Wisdom | Keywords: fool, problem, solution, The Fool, wise
«To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.»
«To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Art, Life, Opportunity | Keywords: catch, golden, improve
«To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell»
Author: Thomas Merton | About: Life | Keywords: doorstep, doorsteps, effect, live on, situations
«To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded»
«To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.»