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She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of exist...

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… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right n...

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the ...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die.

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings ...

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Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive o...

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Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange ...

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Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the t...

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To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, ...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the ...

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just...

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Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. to...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for...

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, th...

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The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that ou...

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This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's ...

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or prod...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys...

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itse...

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Simone de BeauvoirThe Ethics of Ambiguity

So - people a thousand years from now...This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marryi...

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Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it tak...

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his...

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The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let...

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What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground...

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And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his exi...

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