Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
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More Quotes from Mark Twain
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
A winner never taught me how to quit.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!
There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
No garden is without its weeds.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.
