"If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening."

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"If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening."

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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good day to die. Every day is also an apt time to learn and express joy and love for the entire natural world. Each day is an apt time to make contact with other people and express empathy for the entire world. Each day is perfect to accept with indifference all aspects of being."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Living, Life, Gratitude, Contentment, Philosophy

"I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.''What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?''Living,' he said, a little too loud. 'Life's the horse."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with."

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"Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success."

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