"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

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"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

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"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

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"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

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"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

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"Love is a better master than duty."

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"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."

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"The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly."

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"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

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"Love is a better master than duty."

"A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity."

"There are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within these laws only rationally determined constants occur (not constants, therefore, whose numerical value could be changed without destroying the theory)."

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"The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly."

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

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