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MARGARET FULLER:
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARIA MITCHELL:
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN:
Service is what life is all about.
MARIE CURIE:
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
MARK TWAIN:
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
