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" For a while, no matter where I turned, I kept seeing signs. At HomeGoods. In the waiting room of a doctor&amp;#039;s office. In the housewares aisle at Target. In the bathroom of a restaurant during a bachelorette party. The messages were all the same: Live, Laugh, Love. Sometimes, the message was on an actual sign. Other times, on a mug. But no matter what, the sentiment was always there (though sometimes the order differed). It&amp;#039;s become inescapable, this command to live, laugh and love. It&amp;#039;s even surpassed the popularity of that other trendy phrase, &amp;quot;Keep Calm and Carry On.&amp;quot; See, Google can even prove it:  While the origins of &amp;quot;Keep Calm and Carry On&amp;quot; are clear \u2014 it was a slogan from WWII-era Britain \u2014 &amp;quot;Live, Laugh, Love&amp;quot; has a slightly murkier history. That&amp;#039;s mainly because it&amp;#039;s a very condensed version of a much longer work that has been falsely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, thanks to a 1990 &amp;quot;Dear Abby&amp;quot; column.  The real source of &amp;quot;Live, Laugh, Love&amp;quot; is Bessie Anderson Stanley&amp;#039;s 1904 poem, &amp;quot;Success.&amp;quot; Stanley originally submitted the work in the form of an essay for a contest held by Brown Book magazine that asked entrants to define success. You&amp;#039;ll likely recognize more of the contest-winning piece, but our &amp;quot;Live, Laugh, Love&amp;quot; inspiration can be found in the first line: He achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth&amp;#039;s beauty or failed to express it; Who has left the world better than he found it, Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction. &amp;quot;Success&amp;quot; lived on in quote anthologies and Stanley&amp;#039;s headstone, before being misattributed and then condensed to its most recognizable form. And some just can&amp;#039;t help but put their own twist on that phrase:           At our craft show last month, we had an order that was cracking us up. Just you wait to see the man behind this order! He must lift weights as his job because &#128170; ....he&amp;#039;s got the muscles to prove it! &#128514; Love working with different ideas to fit all types of personalities and decorative styles! A photo posted by Familylaser (@familylaser) on Aug 16, 2016 at 5:40am PDT     Mutated versions of &amp;quot;Live, Laugh, Love&amp;quot; have popped up on socks:  Photo via Flickr In the windows of Florida tanning salons...  Photo via Flickr On sassy cowbells...  And necklaces for dachshund enthusiasts.  Perhaps a measure of one&amp;#039;s success is having one&amp;#039;s words inspire the creativity of others over a hundred years later.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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