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"The good life is one guided by reason and motivated by love."

Bertrand Russell

"So when our mortal frame shall be disjoin'd
The lifeless lump uncoupled from the mind,
From sense of grief and pain we shall be free;
We shall not feel, because we will not be. Nay, though our atoms should revolve by chance,
And matter leap into the former dance;
Though time our life and motion could restore.
And make our bodies what they were before,
What gain to us would all this bustle bring?
The new-made man would be another thing."

Lucretius

"Live a good life. If there be gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."

Marcus Aurelius

"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Philip K. Dick

We live by looking forward, but we understand by looking backward.

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."

Albert Einstein

No interpretation of a situation is the absolute truth, but only an interpretation.

"You are wherever your thoughts are, so make sure your thoughts are where you want to be."

Rabbi Nachman

Success is the result of one's combining patience and ardor."

D. Allen

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

Tony Robbins

"Why are you weak? Because without number you have given in. So, you have become the plaything of circumstances. It is you who have made them strong; not they who have made you weak."

Amiel

"The mind of man can make infinite discoveries; sloth alone puts limits to it and its inventions."

Bousset

"The half-informed man is not the man who knows only half of things, but the man who only half knows things. Know what you have resolved to know, cast a glance at the rest."

Sertillanges

"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck. "

Thomas Jefferson

Intolerance, superstition and ignorance grow up with the ease of weeds. Tolerance, reason and knowledge on the other hand, must be cultivated like flowers. This explains why the former are in such abundance and the latter in such short supply.

Experimentation and not comfort is the ultimate arbiter of truth.

"Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be refuted without evidence."

Christopher Hitchens

Focusing prematurely or inordinately on challenges we face in realizing our dreams will kill our resolve and joy before they have taken root.

Balance is often that which is most desirable in one situation while in another it is quite inappropriate. The same is true of moderation. Often it is precisely what is called for, say regarding food and drink. Other times it is simply wrong. There is no such thing as an appropriately moderate goodness, kindness or mercy.

Viewed in a certain light, all of life is a conflict. Among others there are conflicts of opinion, conflicts of resource allocation and internal conflicts when our values are seemingly in opposition.