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Ralph Waldo Emerson:"Success"

"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give of one's self; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — This is to have succeeded."

Dead Poets Society:John Keating

John Keating: We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty,romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.To quote from Whitman, 'O me! O life!...of the questions of these recurring, of the endless trains of the faithless...of cities filled with the foolish;what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here...that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.' That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

Excerpts from Viktor E. Frankl's
Man's Search for Meaning

"The salvation of man is through love and in love."

"...love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire."

"Set me like a seal upon they heart, love is as strong as death."(borrowed from the book of the Bible "Song of Solomon")

"We found out just how uncertain human decisions are, especially in matters of life and death."

"It is this spiritual freedom-which cannot be taken away-that makes life meaningful and purposeful."

"...striving to find a meaning in one's life is the primary motivational force in man."

"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!"

"Man constantly makes his choice concerning the mass of present potentialities; which of these will be condemned to nonbeing and which will be actualized? Which choice will be made an actuality once and forever, an immortal 'footprint in the sands of time?' At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence."

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