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"Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly."
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Personal Development
"You can be beautiful and young even as you get older. Keep an active life."
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Personal Development
"Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect."
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Personal Development
"I will die, yes, that is true, but first I will live to my heart's content."
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Personal Development
"Recovery through sleep isn't going to happen if the majority of the components of your being aren't getting enough stimulation or resistance to work against. Your brain may be tired after work, but if your body and emotions haven't been challenged through the day, they're going to keep irritating you even if you're asleep. They don't need rest; they need work for real recovery to take place."
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"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
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Personal Development
"The source of life's energy comes from our creator and maker."
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Personal Development
"A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with cleanunderwear-instead of being allowed to pursue something higher -stores up greatreserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over theirbooks. (...) The difference between the universitygraduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in theextent of vitality and self-confidence. The elan with which Tereza flung herself into hernew Prague existence was both frenzied and precarious. She seemed to be expectingsomeone to come up to her any day and say, What are you doing here? Go back whereyou belong!"
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"I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men."
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Personal Development
"Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious, holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time."
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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."
Trust
"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
Nature
"The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction."
Education
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
Generosity
"Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly."
Vitality
"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
Heart
"One must steer, not talk."
Talk
"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
Generosity
"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."
Life
"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
Fortune
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