I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ~Stephen Chbosky
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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I live in the moment. ~Amy Sedaris
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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LIFE equals Live In Full Effect! ~Joseph Simmons
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~Joel Osteen
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Indecision is like a stepchild; if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. ~African Proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to! ~Henry David Thoreau
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there is only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself; and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. ~Ashley Tisdale
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It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
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A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ~Chinese Proverb
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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