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it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

ON RELIGION & FAITH

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is nothing more dangerous in this world than persecution and bigotry justified by religious conviction."
- Rev. Webster "Kit" Howell

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."

- John Lennon

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
- Dave Barry

"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."
- Robert Heinlein

ON SPIRITED LIVING

"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot

"I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy."
- Richard Bach

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
- Henry C. Link

"Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively."
- Mel Brooks

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napolean Bonaparte

"It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun."
- Charles de Lint

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze that it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
- Jack London

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
- Wayne Gretzky

"When choosing between two evils, I always like

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