Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. - William Saroyan

 Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ― William Saroyan

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Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was truly awesome. He somersaulted happily around the floor, making faces like a rubber gargoyle in a washing machine.
-Terry Pratchett