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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

- Russell Baker

I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.

- Bill Lee

That, of course, is the devil's bargain of addiction: a short-term good feeling in exchange for the steady meltdown of one's life.

- Daniel Goldman

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

- Barry Lopez

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

- Barbara Pierce Bush

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

- Alan Chadwick

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.

- Michael Levine

You are daughters of God. If each one of you could only have a sure knowledge of this for yourself, you would have a sweet peace in your heart and confidence to meet any challenges life may bring.

- Jayne B. Malin

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory. Let us now commit it to life.

- Charles Edwin Markham

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

- David Hobson