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Theme: Life
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Forever is composed of Nows.

Emily Dickinson / Forever is composed of Nows (c. 1863)

Energy is Eternal Delight.

William Blake / The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-93)

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats / Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

William Wordsworth / Letter to an aspiring poet (attributed)

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Jane Austen / Mansfield Park (1814)

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin / Poor Richard's Almanack (1746)

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare / As You Like It (Act 2, Scene 7)

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

William Shakespeare / Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1)

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius / Meditations (Book X)

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius / Meditations

Some things are in our control and others not. Focus on what you can control.

Epictetus / Enchiridion (Opening lines)

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus / Enchiridion

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Seneca / On the Shortness of Life

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates / Plato's Apology (38a)

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu / Tao Te Ching

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu / Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Sun Tzu / The Art of War

Come forth into the light of things.

William Wordsworth / The Tables Turned
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