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> [We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-goodkind/we-can-t-live-our-lives-according-to-what-might-have-been-we-have-to/)

[Terry Goodkind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-goodkind/)

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> [Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-rubin/hell-is-the-place-for-people-who-did-not-live-their-lives-according/)

[Harriet Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-rubin/)

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> [If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/if-we-were-always-indeed-getting-our-living-and-regulating-our-lives/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-hubbel-chapin/each-thing-lives-according-to-its-kind-the-heart-by-love-the/)

[Edwin Hubbel Chapin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-hubbel-chapin/)

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