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A Select Collection of Select Life Quotes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Select Life Quotes
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Washington Irving: Select Life Quotes
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Select Life Quotes
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

John Stosssel: Select Life Quotes
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Select Life Quotes
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Burton Hills: Select Life Quotes
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Samuel Butler: Select Life Quotes
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Henry B. Wilson: Select Life Quotes
He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.

Friedrich Nietzsche: Select Life Quotes
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Richard Bach: Select Life Quotes
Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

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