What is the Deepest Quote about life that you have ever Read in a Book ?

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1. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.

2. A man never cross a River twice .
   Think about it

3. > The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

4. *“I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”*

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   Attribution is a little fuzzy, most point to Stephen/Etienne de Grelet.

   Read in “How to Make Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie when I was a boy, and I took it to heart.

   So much of my life and the things I’ve done hinge upon that line running through my head.

   It’s on a plaque mounted to the front door. Last thing I see as I leave for the day, foremost in my mind as I greet the day’s first stranger. Doesn’t always stick until the *last* stranger, but I do try.

5. Die before you die and learn there is no death.

6. “The long united must divide… The Long divided must Unite.”

7. Two that stick out
   “Not all those who wander are lost”.
   “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free”

8. “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

   This is from J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” and is presented in the text as a quote from German psychologist Wilhelm Stekel, however Stekel didn’t say it but said something similar to it but when he did he was himself quoting another person. The etymology of the quote is quite interesting.

9. “Woe to all lovers who do not yet have an elevation that is above their pitying!”

10. Not likely the deepest I’ve read but one I remember:

    “The illusion of understanding is a product of distance and perspective. True understanding requires involvement.” – Vlad Taltos

11. “Things are simple. Situations are clear. Hurdles are easy. It’s our mind which makes it complex and complicated.”

12. “If you spend all your time thinking, then all you’re doing is thinking about your own thoughts and you’re not engaging with reality…”

    -Alan Watts

13. >”Children are dying. ”
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    >Lull nodded. “That’s a succinct summary of humankind, I’d say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”

    — Steven Erikson, *Deadhouse Gates*