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Quote by Marie Dressler

“Only a few things are really important.”

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Marie Dressler was an American actress, born on November 9, 1868, and died on July 28, 1934. Known for her unique comedic style and profound dramatic performances, she was a landmark figure in the early 20th-century American film industry. more

“Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.”

Knows Life Feels Heart Different Death Realizing Position Paid Missions Live Life Cherish Garments Bargains Ever After Bundles

Book:Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine

“We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.”

Want Life Three Our Lives Inspire Live Life Verbs

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.”

Life Happiness Live Life Love Life This Too Shall Pass

Book:A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962

Source: A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962

“Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.”

Men Stuff Nature Suicide Clouds Suicidal Dough

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.”

Giving Social Causes Special Conditions Involved Victim Suicide Phenomenon Stamps Suicidal Temperament

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.”

Should Literature Suicide Suicidal Bumps Swine

Author:Ezra Pound

“At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”

Children Ideas Death Felt Dying Periods Suicide Longing Defense Commit Temptation Protest Within You Suicidal Deep Within Longing For Death

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?”

Death House Sin Secret Suicide Dare Suicidal

Author:William Shakespeare

“It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.”

Virtue Suicide Fortune Holes Massive Strokes Suicidal Hollow Tombs Lurking Squat

Author:Michel de Montaigne

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