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Here are a few quotes regarding living real life that I thought were useful when comparing that to playing video games instead.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.A Security is mostly a superstition.A It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Sachs, A.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
VanDyke, Henry

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
David O. McKay

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life.
John Homer Miller

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

- John O.

[em]Carpe Diem![/em] (Seize the Day!)

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Best quote I've heard in many years: ~ " Life is not a system, It is a collection of exceptions." G. Dearman

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." --W. Clement Stone

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Great quotes! Let me add the quote I use as a signature on this board: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - M. Ghandi life IS life

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Thank you for the quotes, I donA't have any to add at the moment, but when I stumble upon something, I will add it. :)

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Here are a few more related quotes. The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
Carl Jung The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.
Mychal Wynn The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
Stephen Covey The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James The hard way is the right way.
John Alves

- John O.

[em]Carpe Diem![/em] (Seize the Day!)

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Some people are so afraid of living, they escape from their life into whatever they can find to numb themselves (be it games or drugs or alcohol or food, etc.). Liz

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Here are still some more related quotes. In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
Bill Baughan The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Thomas Merton I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Ashleigh Brilliant May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
Thomas L. Holdcroft Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickso Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Bent Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D. Souza It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson It is better to wear out than to rust out.
George Whitefield The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne Life isn't all beer and skittles.
Thomas Hughes Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Shari R. Barr

- John O.

[em]Carpe Diem![/em] (Seize the Day!)

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These are great! Thanks. Liz

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I just read about a local business student, Sam Thiara, winning an achievement award.A In the article, he said that his favourite quote is:

Quote:

Everyone's life is an autobiography.A Make yours worth reading.

Note that a quick search using Google failed to turn up who the original author of it is.

- John O.

[em]Carpe Diem![/em] (Seize the Day!)

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Here is one more that I have found and that I thought that you all might enjoy reading: We are much happier,
much happier
when we realize
that life is an opportunity rather
than an obligation. Mary Augustine

- John O.

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Here are a few more that I hope that you will enjoy. Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
- William Blake From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
- Leo Tolstoy A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
- Florence Shinn

- John O.

[em]Carpe Diem![/em] (Seize the Day!)

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I don't know if this applies to life: Willing is not enough,
We must do. Knowing is not enough,
We must apply.
--Geothe As always, easier said than done. D (I love QUotes!)

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