"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

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"The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

Alan Shepard, American Astronaut

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

B. C. Forbes, Scottish Journalist

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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"He not busy being born is busy dying."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Being is more important than doing."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died."

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"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."

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"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

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"I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal."

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"At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it."

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"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."

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