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Happiness is a good flow of life.
Zeno of Citium /






Don't waste life in doubts and fears.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






By trying to understand everything in terms of memory, the past, and words, we have, as it were, had our noses in the guidebook for most of our lives, and have never looked at the view.
Alan Watts / 






Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
Henry David Thoreau - Journal / 






A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
Carl Gustav Jung /






Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield / 






We are all travellers. And this journey is life.
Christiane Singer / 






Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Alfred Adler / 






It takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 
 






Nature is the best guide of a good life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 






Montaigne’s wisdom: to love life in spite of everything.
André Comte-Sponville - Dictionnaire philosophique / 
 






Joy always announces that life has succeeded, gained ground, conquered. All great joy has a triumphant note.
Henri Bergson - L’Énergie spirituelle / 
 






The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Alan Watts / 






Pleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.
Epicurus - Letter to Menoeceus / 
 






The life without festival is a long road without an inn.
Democritus - Fragments / 
 






Who knows? How odd and fickle is life ! How little is needed to ruin or rescue us !
Guy de Maupassant / 






For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?
Desiderius Erasmus /






There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Alphonse de Lamartine / 






Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr. / 






He who plays with life
Never gets ahead.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Henry David Thoreau /






Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one's own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / 






This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it 'work', realize that this is play.
Alan Watts / 






Order does not create life.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 






Humanity prefers to life reasons to live.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero / 






When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.
Paulo Coelho /






It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
Paulo Coelho /






The highest life is mathematics.
Novalis - Fragments / 
 






What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
Nelson Mandela /










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