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Life

«Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.»
Author: Fred Rogers (Host, Producer) | About: Life, Love
«La vie est un long fleuve qui mene a la mort. La survie est une goutte d'eau dans le desert... le fleuve ne quittera jamais son lit pour sauver cette goutte d'eau.»
Author: Kristeven Mootien | About: Life
«Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.»
Author: Morrie Schwartz | About: Death, Life
«Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.»
«Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.»
«Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.»
«Lameness is an impediment to the body but not to the will.»
Author: Epictetus | About: Life
«Kill all the fags that don't agree»
Author: Green Day | About: Life | Keywords: fag
«kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect»
«Know that you yourself are a miracle.»