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I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. - George Washington

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

George Washington

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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. - Plato

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Plato

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. - Saint Augustine

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Happiness

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. - Abraham Lincoln

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. - Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift

Desire
Age

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. - John Galsworthy

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

John Galsworthy

Power

To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. - Carlos Castaneda

To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.

Carlos Castaneda

Spiritual warrior

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. - Voltaire

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Voltaire

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. - D. H. Lawrence

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

D. H. Lawrence

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. - Menander

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. - Henry Ford

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Henry Ford

Man

I always say don't make plans, make options. - Jennifer Aniston

I always say don't make plans, make options.

Jennifer Aniston

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. - Voltaire

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

Freedom

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. - Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Boris Pasternak

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. - Jean Cocteau

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Jean Cocteau

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. - Tony Robbins

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

Tony Robbins

Change

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. - Euripides

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Euripides

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