You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. – Mae West
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – J.K. Rowling
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. – Stephen Chbosky
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. – John Green
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can. – Nicholas Sparks
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. – Oscar Wilde
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – Dr. Seuss
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. – Haruki Murakami
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. – Albert Einstein
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Death ends a life, not a relationship. – Mitch Albom
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. – Gustave Flaubert
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. – Virginia Woolf
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
May you live every day of your life. – Jonathan Swift
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters. – Audrey Hepburn
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past has no power over the present moment. – Eckhart Tolle
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Søren Kierkegaard
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime. – Khaled Hosseini
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. – Dale Carnegie
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive. – E.E. Cummings
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. – Emily Dickinson
Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? – Haruki Murakami
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give ’em. – Shel Silverstein
When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. – John Lennon
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