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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

— Mark Twain

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

— Richard Le Gallienne

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

— Guy de Maupassant

Whatever contributes to the preservation of life is good; all that destroys life is evil.

— Gerhard Domagk

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

— Shakti Gawain

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

— Jean Ingelow

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

— Alana Stewart

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

— John Crowe Ransom

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

— Jo Ann Davis

✗Opposing Perspectives

We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences.

— Tom Rath