Quotes on life
Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become. Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow.
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Adam R. Gwizdala Quotes
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
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Jean de La Bruyere Quotes
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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John W. Gardner Quotes
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
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Luigi Pirandello Quotes
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
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Proverb Quotes
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."
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Maya Angelou Quotes
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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Erich Fromm Quotes
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Arthur Miller Quotes
... the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
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Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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George MacDonald Quotes
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.
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Charles Johnson Quotes
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Matthew Arnold Quotes
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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Jean Giraudoux Quotes
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
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Gordon Allport Quotes
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.
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Author Unknown Quotes
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
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Edward Young Quotes
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
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Heraclitus Quotes
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose.
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Fred Allen Quotes
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
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Robert Byrne Quotes
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
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Chris Evert Lloyd Quotes
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.
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Levende Waters Quotes
The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.
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Jessi Lane Adams Quotes
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
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Hans Christian Anderson Quotes
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
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Peter Marshall Quotes
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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Erik H. Erikson Quotes
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
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Charles Feidelson Jr. Quotes
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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James Matthew Barrie Quotes
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
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Henry Miller Quotes
One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.
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Lemony Snicket Quotes
Sometimes questions are more important than answers.
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Nancy Willard Quotes
A useless life is an early death.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
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Unknown Author Quotes
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
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Unknown Author Quotes
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
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Louis Adamic Quotes
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Ogden Nash Quotes
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Cyril Connolly Quotes
These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves
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Erik H. Erickson Quotes
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
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Dennis Wholey Quotes
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
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Charlie Brown Quotes
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate.
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R.D. Laing Quotes
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
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Jack Penn Quotes
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
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Jean Paul Richter Quotes
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
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Peter De Vries Quotes
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
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Agnes' Law Quotes
We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.
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Stacy Quotes
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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Douglas Adams Quotes
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
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E. B. White Quotes
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.
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Douglas Adams Quotes
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
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Erma Bombeck Quotes
To live is not breathing; it is action.
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Jean-Jaques Rousseau Quotes
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.
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Unknown Author Quotes
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
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Havelock Ellis Quotes
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
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Henry Miller Quotes
Life's too short for chess.
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Henry James Byron Quotes
Life is the sum of all your choices.
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Albert Camus Quotes
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
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Stephen Hawking Quotes
If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.
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Confucius Quotes
A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
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Alfred Adler Quotes
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
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Thomas Aloysius Dorgan Quotes
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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T.S. Eliot Quotes
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
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Reba McEntire Quotes
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
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Sherwood Anderson Quotes
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought h
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Unknown Author Quotes
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
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Francis William Bourdillon Quotes
Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth Quotes
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
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Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Quentin Crisp Quotes
Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself.
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Corri Alius Quotes
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
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Bruce Crampton Quotes
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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E. B. White Quotes
Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit.
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Jonathan Winters Quotes
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
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Hubert Humphrey Quotes
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
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Robert James Waller Quotes
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
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Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
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Christopher Morley Quotes
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
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John D. Rockefeller Quotes
We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
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Bernard Malamud Quotes
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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William Lyon Phelps Quotes
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Karen Horney Quotes
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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Karen Horney Quotes
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
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Danzae Pace Quotes
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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Paul Gauguin Quotes
Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?
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Jean Anouilh Quotes
Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.
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Michael Landon Quotes
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
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Swedish Proverb Quotes
I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
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Richard Phillips Feynman Quotes
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
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Douglas Adams Quotes
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
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Oscar Holmolka Quotes
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
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Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Life is an incurable Disease.
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Abraham Cowley Quotes
Life is a cement trampoline.
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Howard Nordberg Quotes
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
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Shirley MacLaine Quotes
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
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Jim Carrey Quotes
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
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Emily Dickinson Quotes
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.
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Author Unknown Quotes
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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Garrison Keillor Quotes
He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
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Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes
Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing.
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B.P. Blood Quotes
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Clarence Darrow Quotes
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the creator, there is no poverty.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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Edward Abbey Quotes
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.
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A.A. Milne Quotes
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I thought your line was great about, uh,"life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." I mean, it's completely true.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.
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Anonymous Quotes
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
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Richard Bach Quotes
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
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Phillips Brooks Quotes
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
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Author Unknown Quotes
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Bill Watterson Quotes
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Joseph Addison Quotes
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
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Richard Bach Quotes
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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E.E. Cummings Quotes
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
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Lillian Dickson Quotes
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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Brendan Gill Quotes
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
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Cary Grant Quotes
God writes a lot of comedy. The trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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Garrison Keillor Quotes
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
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Cherralea Morgen Quotes
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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Anaïs Nin Quotes
Life is simple, its just not easy.
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Author Unknown Quotes
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Why torture yourself when life 'll do it for you?
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Author Unknown Quotes
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - and found that life was duty.
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Ellen Stugis Hooper Quotes
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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James Truslow Adams Quotes
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
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William James Quotes
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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Woody Allen Quotes
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off. The right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
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Rick Maksian Quotes
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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Albert Schweitzer Quotes