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• "Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going."

• "Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."

• "The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully."

• "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

• "The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical."

• "The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

• "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."

• "The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."

• "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

• "People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."

• "Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time."

• "Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood."

• "Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations."

• "Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."

• "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

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