‘I Was Put on This Earth to Accomplish Certain Things’
“Every single morning I wake with a bang,’ he said. ‘It’s as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.” (Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery)
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“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy.” (Jonathan Safran Foer)
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“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful.” (Buddha)
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“One must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” (Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari)
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“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” (Dalai Lama XIV)
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“God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.” (Bill Watterson)
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