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"be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."- david starr jordan

"our plans miscarry because they have no aim. when a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."
-marcus annaeus seneca

"no pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose."- minot simons

"there is one thing that gives radiance to everything. it is the idea of something around the corner."- g.k. chesterton

"my father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. mother would come out and say 'you're tearing up the grass.' 'we're not raising grass,' dad would reply, 'we're raising boys.' "- harmon killebrew
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"lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."- charles c. noble

"the purpose of life is a life of purpose."- robert byrne

"obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the ball."- hannah more

"there are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."- christopher morely

"not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."- henry david thoreau
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“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.” – Erma Bombeck

“Independence Day: freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” – John Adams

“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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"to have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. a belief of some kind. a bumper sticker, if you will."
-judith guest

"an aspiration is a joy forever, a posession as solid as a landed estate."- robert louis stevenson

"the soul that has no established aim loses itself."- michel de montaigne

"choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything."= scott reed

"everything's in the mind. that's where it all starts. knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it."- mae west
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"there is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."- henry ford

"strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes."- kenneth hildebrand

"a life that hsn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood."- david sarnoff

(read this one twice if you have to-to get the point the lady is making.)

"if we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days."- dorothy canfield fisher
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"every man is said to have his peculiar ambition."- abraham lincoln

"we all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different, yet the same."- anne frank

"to be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."- baruch spinoza

"the aim of life is self-development, to realize one's nature perfectly."- oscar wilde

"follow your bliss. find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it."- joseph campbell
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"the business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery."- norman douglas

"the true object of human life is play."- g.k. chesterton

"there is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself."- erich fromm

"pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures."- voltaire

"life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time."- cher
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"why should i deem myself to be a chisel, when i could be the artist?"- j.c.f. von schiller

"aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither."- c.s. lewis

"once you say you're going for second, that's what happens to you."- john f. kennedy

"not failure, but low aim, is crime."- james russell lowell

"we aim above the mark to hit the mark."- ralph waldo emerson
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"the very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."
-hugh black

"the only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."- john mason brown

"there is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time."- j.c.f. von schiller

"happiness is not the end of life; character is."- henry ward beecher

"a person can grow only as much as his horizon allows."- john powell
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"happiness is the natural flower of duty."- phillips brooks

"never mind happiness, do your duty."- will durant

"human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."- george washington

"this is true joy of life--being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one...instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."- george bernard shaw

"true happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out; you must stay out, and to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand."- henry james
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"That's why I fucked your bitch, you fat mother fucker" - Tupac Shakur
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"the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."- albert schweitzer

"there is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."- henry ford

"give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
-george bernard shaw

"without duty, life is soft and boneless."- joseph joubert

"having a goal is a state of happiness."- e.j. bartek
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"the man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere."- frank swinnerton

"the object of war is to survive it."- john irving

"the proper function of man is to live--not to exist."- jack london

"there are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
- logan pearsall smith

"the greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."- william james

"the great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."- john morley
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here's some summertime quotes before the next chapter.

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”-Jenny Han

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”-Charles Bowden

“Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light..”-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.”-James Dent

“In summer, the song sings itself.”-William Carlos Williams

“Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” -Henry James
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a new section and a new chapter. part 5 overcoming negatives and uncertainties. first chapter: fear

"the flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind."- virgil

"we all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell."- lee trevino

"this is the century of fear."- albert camus

"only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear."- bill w.

"every day i wake up a little afraid. only a fool is never afraid."- ron meyer

"all men are afraid in battle. the coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. duty is the essence of manhood."
- general george s. patton
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"there is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear."- jawaharlal nehru

"fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the most cruel."- georges bernanos

"a man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies."- william wrigley jr.

"fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear."- paul parker

"neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
- bertrand russell
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"of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most."- cardinal de retz

"if we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."- marcus annaeus seneca

"what begins in fear usually ends in folly."- samuel taylor coleridge

"fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty."- bertrand russell

"fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world."- william faulkner
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"to hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill...it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time."- harry a. overstreet

"fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."- shirley maclaine

"as many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery."- norman mailer

"fear is proof of a degenerate mind."- virgil

"i have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me."- angela l. wozniak
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"fear springs from ignorance."- ralph waldo emerson

"fear is secured by a dread of punishment."- niccolo machiavelli

"we are largely the playthings of our fears. to one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness...for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush."- horace walpole

"fear follows crime, and is its punishment."- voltaire

"the only thing we have to fear on this planet is man."- carl jung
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"cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."- william shakespeare

"the mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."- marcus annaeus seneca

"the future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. and the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
- tennessee williams

"we are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us."- john lancaster spalding

"cowardice...is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of imagination."- ernest hemingway
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fear can be a self-fulfilling prophesy

"we are terrified by the idea of being terrified."- friedrich nietzsche

"he who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."- napoleon bonaparte

"the thing we fear we bring to pass."- elbert hubbard

"fear breeds fear."- byron janis

"be not afraid of life. believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."- william james
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fears can be unlearned

"fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out."- dr. karl menninger

"human beings are born with just two basic fears. one is the fear of loud noises. the other is the fear of falling. all other fears must be learned."
- ronald rood

"nothing in life is to be feared. it is only to be understood."- marie currie

"we have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid."- william faulkner

"victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man."- nicholas berdyaev

"i am not afraid of storms, for i am learning how to sail my ship."- louisa may alcott
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fear of failure

"true success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."- paul sweeney

"most people are afraid of failing. i think there's nothing wrong in failing."- mark n. cohen

"studies by medical corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases...found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and the fear of failure ran a strong second."- s.l.a. marshall

"half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt."- james northcote

"a champion is afraid of losing. everyone else is afraid of winning."- billie jean king
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fear of either living or dying

"it is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live."- marcus aurelius

"some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."- henry van dyke

"the worst of all fears is the fear of living."- theodore roosevelt

"those who fear life are already three parts dead."- bertrand russell

"fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning."- john henry cardinal newman
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fear of death

"healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death."- erik h. erickson

"to live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life."- malcolm forbes

"it is not death we fear, but the thought of it."- marcus annaeus seneca

"fear of death is worse than dying."- j.c.f. von schiller

"it is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."- epictetus

"death is not the enemy, living in constant fear of it is."- norman cousins
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facing your fears

"the fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."- vincent van gogh

"to live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity."- edward weeks

"do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain."- ralph waldo emerson

"never run away from anything. never!"- sir winston churchill

"i wanted to be scared again...i wanted to feel unsure again. that's the only way i learn, the only way i feel challenged."- connie chung

"he that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six."- chinese proverb
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action is the great antidote

"the most drastic, and usually the most effective, remedy for fear is direct action."- william burnham

"to be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts."- joseph conrad

"the habit of doing one's duty drives away fear."- charles baudelaire

"when thinking won't cure fear, action will."- w. clement stone

"a life of action and danger moderates the dread of death."- william hazlitt

"if you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. go out and get busy."- dale carnegie
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most fears are useless

"half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable."- christian bovee

"we poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and...the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down."- jean anouilh

"envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached."- john churton collins

"needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits."- elie metchnikoff

"there are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."- andre gide
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the competition is afraid too

"general grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life...'i am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.' "-sherwood anderson

"above all things, never be afraid. the enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."- andre maurois

"every great hitter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher."- ty cobb

"the superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision."- henry kissinger

"if you knew how cowardly your enemy is, you would slap him. bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy."- edgar watson howe
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faith helps overcome fear

"fear is faithlessness."- george macdonald

"deep faith eliminates fear."- lech walesa

"fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable."- harry emerson fosdick

"fear is faith that it won't work out."- sister mary tricky

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. therefore we will not fear."- psalms 36:1-2
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