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MY CHILD, from your youth choose discipline, and when you have gray hair you will still find wisdom.
Sirach 6:8

WE ARE, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.
Lord Chesterfield, Lord Chesterfield's Worldly Wisdom

WHEN YOU were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Indian Proverb

WE MOSTLY SPEND [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do … forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in the fundamental verb, to Be.
Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life

THERE IS no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

THE WILL can do all—except one thing: undo that which it has done. The power of undoing is of another order: of the order of grace, if you will. It is a miracle.
Vladimir Jankélévitch, Forgiveness

IF YOU were doomed to live the same life over and over again for eternity, would you choose the life you are living now? The question is interesting enough, but I've always thought the point of asking it is really the unspoken, potentially devastating follow-up question. That is, if the answer is no, then why are you living the life you are living now? Stop making excuses, and do something about it.
William Alexander The $64 Tomato

THE CROSS is always ready and waits for you everywhere. You cannot escape it no matter ...

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