Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
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Can life be a blessing,
Or worth the possessing,
Can life be a blessing if love were away?
Ah no! though our love all night keep us waking,
And though he torment us with cares all the day,
Yet he sweetens, he sweetens our pains in the taking,
There's an hour at the last, there's an hour to repay.
In ev'ry possessing,
The ravishing blessing,
In ev'ry possessing the fruit of our pain,
Poor lovers forget long ages of anguish,
Whate'er they have suffer'd and done to obtain;
'Tis a pleasure, a pleasure to sigh and to languish,
When we hope, when we hope to be happy again.