"We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It's not about what you had, but what you gave. It's not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it's not just about being remembered. It's about giving people a good reason to remember you."
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"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
"A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness."
"Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."
"... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
"Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life."
"In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices."
"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."
"Life is but a dream for the dead."
"He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave."
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."
"I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!"
"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."
"You can never be too early to stand around and wait. You can have a seat in this chair, after I cinch the noose around my neck and you kick it out from under my legs."
"I'm about to get my grind on. My coffee grind. Like a true hustler."
"You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values."
"I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?"
"After soul searching, I found myself. Then I found myself giving of myself to a charity that finds missing children. It's great to be found."
"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."