The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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