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"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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"Have you forgotten what it feels like to be alive? The grace of life shining on you, each breath vitalizing you with possibility? Remember!"
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Personal Development

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."
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Personal Development

"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
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Personal Development

"Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written."
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"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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Personal Development

"The most hidden secret to the Law of Attraction is frequency and to Medicine is oxygen."
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Personal Development

"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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"Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing."
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"If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless."
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Life

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
Wealth

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
Future

"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."
Destiny

"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."
Wisdom

"Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
Wisdom

"A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers."
Society

"Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find that place, whatever it may be like, a hospitable home. Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there."
Philosophy

"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
Philosophy

"A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach."
Wellness
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