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Ernest Becker: “The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”

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Ernest Becker: “I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know ... that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?”

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Charlotte Bronte: “Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

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Unknown: “Life would be much easier if I had the source code.”

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George Sand: “Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes: “A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

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Pearl S. Buck: “The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”

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Pearl S. Buck: “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”

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Karl Barth: “Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.”

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Victor Frankl: “A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'”

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Victor Frankl: “We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.”

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Leo Buscaglia: “What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

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Victor Frankl: “If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.”

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Henry Van Dyke: “Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “[W]e are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. The individual or nation that feels that it can live in isolation has allowed itself to sleep through a revolution. The geographical togetherness of the modern world makes our very existence dependent on co-existence. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. Because of our involvement in humanity we must be concerned about every human being.”

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Buddha: “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”

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Dorothy Thompson: “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”

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Dorothy Thompson: “Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”

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Matthew Arnold: “Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...”

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Norbert Capek: “It is worthwhile to live
and fight courageously
for sacred ideals.

O blow ye evil winds
into my body's fire
my soul you'll never unravel.

Even though disappointed a thousand times
or fallen in the fight
and everything would worthless seem,

I have lived amidst eternity --
Be grateful, my soul --
My life was worth living.

He who was pressed from all sides
but remained victorious in spirit
is welcomed into the choir of heroes.

He who overcame the fetters
giving wings to his mind
is entering into the golden age of
the victorious.” more

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Emily Dickinson: “If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”

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Katharine Hepburn: “Without discipline, there's no life at all.”

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William James: “These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.” more

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Marian Wright Edelman: “Service is what life is all about.”

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Barry Lopez: “How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.”

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Emily Dickinson: “Love -- is anterior to Life --
Posterior -- to Death --
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth -- ”

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Colette: “I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”

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Amelia Burr: “Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”

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Elizabeth Drew: “The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”

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