When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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  1. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive...

  2. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  3. Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

  4. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  5. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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