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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?