life
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘life’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” -George Washington
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“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.” -Henry Ford
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“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” -Brooke Shields
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“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” -Stephen Covey
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“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.” -Plato
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“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” -Jean Paul
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“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.” -Marcus Garvey
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“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” -Christopher Morley
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“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” -Dale Carnegie
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“Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.” -Shania Twain
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“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.” -Tom Cochrane
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“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” -Princess Diana
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“When you’re passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.” -Debra Messing
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“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.” -Joyce Brothers
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“Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.” -Charles Stanley
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“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“I’m a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone’s life.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” -Garrison Keillor
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“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.” -Isaac Asimov
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“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” -Pope Paul VI
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“The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.” -Voltaire
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“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” -Pablo Picasso
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“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” -William Wordsworth
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“To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.” -Martin Luther
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“I’ve made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.” -Henry Rollins
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“Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.” -Lydia Lunch
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“I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can’t buy things, the economy doesn’t grow. If the economy doesn’t grow, we don’t…
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“Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.” -Steven Biko
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“To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.” -Saint Teresa of Avila
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“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” -Emily Bronte
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“Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” -Carl Rogers
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“I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.” -Lady Gaga
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“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.” -E. W. Howe
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“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ‘finding himself.’ If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.” -Thomas Merton
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“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” -Joseph Addison
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“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.” -Eileen Caddy
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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” -Norman Cousins
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“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.” -Steven Tyler
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“People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.” -Carl Lewis
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“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.” -Sigmund Freud
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“Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.” -Chris Burke
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“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” -Igor Stravinsky
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“Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.” -Gerald Massey
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“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.” -Michael Jackson
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“Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can’t find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different…
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“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.” -Florence Scovel Shinn
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“You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.” -Wayne Dyer
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“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.” -Emily Dickinson
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“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” -Tony Robbins
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“You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal.” -Johnny Depp
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“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.” -Stephen King
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“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.” -Les Brown
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“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about…
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“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.” -George Santayana
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“A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.” -Robert Wagner
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“I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.” -Gore Vidal
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“Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.” -Dan Millman
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“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” -Leon Trotsky
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“I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper – I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it.…
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“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” -Hugh Prather
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“You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.” -Sai Baba
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“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” -George Washington Carver
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“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” -Anais Nin
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“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” -Lord Byron
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“Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don’t turn out the way you’re given the impression that they will. And I think that’s all kind of a con. But I think we’ve probably all been hurt.” -Sigourney Weaver
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“My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.” -Prince William
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“I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life’s problems.” -James Cash Penney
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“Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.” -Eric Davis
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“A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” -Francis Bacon
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“You know what your problem is, it’s that you haven’t seen enough movies – all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.” -Steve Martin
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“You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” -Rick Warren
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“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’” -Richard Branson
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“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.” -Jim Carrey
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“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” -Will Rogers
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“Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.” -Steve Jobs
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“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.” -Groucho Marx
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“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” -Deepak Chopra
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“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” -Pythagoras
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“He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.” -Samuel Adams
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“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” -Langston Hughes
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“Life is to be entered upon with courage.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.” -Isak Dinesen
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“Haters never win. I just think that’s true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.” -Tom Hiddleston
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“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the…
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“Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.” -W. H. Auden
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“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’” -Aldous Huxley
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“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” -Tennessee Williams
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“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.” -Walt Disney
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“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.” -Viktor E. Frankl
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“If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.” -Saint Patrick
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“I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.” -Dean Koontz
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“You make mistakes, but I don’t have any regrets. I’m the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.” -Kim Kardashian
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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” -Dorothea Lange
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“Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.” -Edward de Bono
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“If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.” -Arthur Ashe
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“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.” -A. J. McLean
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“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” -J. K. Rowling
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“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” -Grandma Moses
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“Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.” -Kevyn Aucoin
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“A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.” -Denis Waitley
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“I like people that enjoy life, ’cause I do the same.” -Lil Wayne
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“I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.” -Jim Valvano
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“For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” -Jesus Christ
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“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.” -Humphry Davy
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“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.” -Al…
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“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.” -Mary McLeod Bethune
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“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.” -James Dean
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“I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.” -Robert Plant
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“I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.” -Albert Camus
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“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.” -Charlie Sheen
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“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” -Gilda Radner
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“Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink.” -W. C. Fields
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“It’s not the men in my life that count, it’s the life in my men.” -Mae West
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“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was ‘the man goes on top and the woman underneath.’ For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.” -Joan Rivers
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“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” -Simone Weil
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“Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.” -Madonna Ciccone
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“I’ve always taken ‘The Wizard of Oz’ very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I’ve spent my entire life trying to get over it.” -Judy Garland
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“Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.” -Andrea Corr
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“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.” -Aleister Crowley
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“One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.” -Robert Byrd
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“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” -Bill Gates
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“Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.” -Brian Tracy
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“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” -Keri Russell
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” -Sophia Loren
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“That’s the way I got along in life. I don’t ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can’t do it myself, I don’t deserve to get it.” -Clyde Tombaugh
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“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.” -Cesar Chavez
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” -Sylvia Plath
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“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.” -Flannery O’Connor
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“We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.” -Lauren Hutton
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“My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” -Malcolm X
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“Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.” -Red Skelton
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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.” -Napoleon Hill
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“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“You come to a point in your life when you really don’t care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.” -Evel Knievel
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“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” -William Arthur Ward
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“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
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“We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!” -Gary Ryan Blair
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“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.” -Bill Hicks
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“School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“What you get is a living, what you give is a life.” -Lillian Gish
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“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.” -Phillips Brooks
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“I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.” -Kevin Costner
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“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.” -Kenny Loggins
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“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.” -William Blake
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“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.” -Sitting Bull
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