“Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”

—  Grace Hansen

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”

—  T.S. Eliot

“I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.”

—  Carlos Castaneda

“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.”

—  Rabindranath Tagore

“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don’t let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.”

—  R. I. Fitzhenry

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

—  Victor Hugo

“A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.”

—  Wilfred Peterson

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

—  Lou Holtz

“It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated…it is finished when it surrenders.”

—  Ben Stein

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.”

—  Samuel Johnson
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