Either we live by accident ...

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
 Thornton Wilder

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Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
The by-product is that they more people you help, the "richer" you become, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and definitely financially.
 T. Harv Eker
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
 Thornton Wilder
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
 Thornton Wilder
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.
 Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
 Thornton Wilder
I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
 Thornton Wilder