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“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

“Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.”

“But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.”

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.”

“Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”