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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.