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Death is no different whined at than withstood. ---Philip Larkin
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ---William Butler Yeats
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“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” —Viktor E. Frankl
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And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove. ----William Blake
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True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” —Helen Keller
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Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame. ---William Butler Yeats
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“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.” —Simone de Beauvoir
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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death? ---William Wordsworth
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” —Dolly Parton
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The modest Rose puts forth a Thorn. The humble Sheep a threat'ning Horn. While the Lily white shall in love delight. Nor a Thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. ---William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” —Pablo Picasso
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My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once… ----William Wordsworth
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” —Maya Angelou
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