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«Adventure is the essence of life.»
Author: Dick Rutan | About: Adventure, Life
«A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.»
«A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.»
Author: Imam Ali | About: Life
«Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child?s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.»
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
«A step to the left can change your world.»
Author: Thomas Murray | About: Happiness, Life
«A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,?What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again?? I give some sort of answer because I don?t wish to be rude, but I don?t tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. That?s what I would do differently. I would lift weights.»
«Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.»
«Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the wil»
«A house full of condiments and no real food.»

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