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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“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.” -Ralph Marston
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“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.” -Nikki Giovanni
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“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.” -Julius Caesar
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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.” -Martha Graham
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“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.” -Richard Cecil
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“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” -Rumi
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“Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn’t like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.” -Sydney Madwed
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“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” -John Wooden
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“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.” -Oliver Hudson
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“I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She’s instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.” -Scott Brooks
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“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” -Eugene Kennedy
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“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.” -Tupac Shakur
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“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?” -W. Clement Stone
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“I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.” -Ron Paul
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“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.” -Nora Ephron
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“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -Berthold Auerbach
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“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.” -George Carlin
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“Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.” -Ani DiFranco
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“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.” -Tom Brady
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“The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.” -Chanakya
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“I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.” -Faith Hill
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“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.” -Robert Frost
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“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.” -Joseph Campbell
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“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” -Bertrand Russell
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“God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.” -Michelle Obama
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“Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don’t get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don’t have to do as much, like you don’t go on as many outings.” -Hugh Jackman
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“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.” -Lewis Carroll
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“There’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.” -Jack Nicholson
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“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” -Bill Watterson
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“Above our life we love a steadfast friend.” -Christopher Marlowe
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“Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” -Virginia Satir
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“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.” -Bede Griffiths
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“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” -Socrates
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“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” -Jim Rohn
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” -Victor Hugo
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“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.” -B. R. Ambedkar
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“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.” -Joan of Arc
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“It’s a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.” -Timothy Leary
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“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” -Tallulah Bankhead
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“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” -Jim Henson
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“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Once you’ve wrestled, everything else in life is easy.” -Dan Gable
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.” -Al Goldstein
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“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” -Elizabeth Kenny
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“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” -Wilma Rudolph
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“Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” -Aphra Behn
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“Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” -Thomas S. Monson
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“Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it’s scary. You always wonder whether you’ll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record ‘Inside Out’ because that’s my motto about life. I don’t think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.” -Emmy…
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“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.” -Gerald Jampolsky
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“I’m back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.” -Donna Mills
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“The quality of life is more important than life itself.” -Alexis Carrel
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“I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” -T. S. Eliot
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“I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.” -Martin…
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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” -Omar Khayyam
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“I would say my greatest achievement in life right now – my greatest achievement period is – and I’m still trying to achieve it – is to be a wonderful father to my kids.” -Bo Jackson
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“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen……
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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” -Neale Donald Walsch
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“People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn’t going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it’s all about? Jealousy.” -Summer Altice
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“Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” -Henry Miller
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“The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.” -Ginger Rogers
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“I’ve reached a point in my life where it’s the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I’m happier with that.” -Veronica Lake
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“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.” -Frank Sinatra
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“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.” -Richard Burton
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“Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.” -Paul Wellstone
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“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.” -Conan O’Brien
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“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” -Abraham Maslow
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“Don’t ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don’t, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.” -Boris…
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“Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.” -Marilu Henner
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“Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.” -Paul Tournier
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“The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.” -Julius Erving
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“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” -Bob Feller
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“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.” -Ayn Rand
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“I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.” -Tom Welling
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“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“I don’t have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.” -Michael Landon
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“If you’re married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife ‘I love her’ the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that’s how I feel about my relationship…
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“This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.” -Omar N. Bradley
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“In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I’ve been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.” -Michael Jordan
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” -Booker T. Washington
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“The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.” -Aristotle
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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“It’s true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you’ll find you’ve created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.” -Marianne Williamson
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“I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.” -Sting
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“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” -George Eliot
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“A woman’s life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.” -Wallis Simpson
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“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.” -Stephen Hawking
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.” -Amelia Earhart
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“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.” -Anne Hathaway
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“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.” -Confucius
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“If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.” -Eminem
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner
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“Babies don’t need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach… it pisses me off! I’ll go over to a little baby and say ‘What are you doing here? You haven’t worked a day in your life!’” -Steven Wright
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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” -Michael LeBoeuf
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“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” -Lao Tzu
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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” -Khalil Gibran
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“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.” -Paulo Coelho
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“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.” -Muhammad Ali
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“This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.” -Jim Morrison
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“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” -Patrick Henry
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“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” -Madalyn Murray O’Hair
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“You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.” -Caleb Carr
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“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.” -David Gerrold
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“I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.” -Kurt Cobain
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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Presents don’t really mean much to me. I don’t want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.” -Gabriel Byrne
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“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.” -John Dewey
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“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” -John C. Maxwell
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“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.” -Ronald Reagan
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“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” -Henry Drummond
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“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.” -Pope John Paul II
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“You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.” -Warren Buffett
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“I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.” -John Lennon
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“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” -Helen Keller
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“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.” -Chris Rock
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“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’” -Maya Angelou
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“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.” -Angelina Jolie
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” -Lucille Ball
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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” -Alan Cohen
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“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.” -Joan Lunden
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“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” -Carl Sandburg
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“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” -Marie Curie
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“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.” -Winston Churchill
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“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” -C. S. Lewis
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“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.” -David Rockefeller
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“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’” -Billy Graham
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“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” -Mark Twain
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“The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.” -Dalai Lama
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“You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” -Joel Osteen
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“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” -Ben Hogan
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“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” -Emile Zola
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“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” -Hugh Sidey
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“Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.” -Hugh Mackay
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“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” -Bruce Lee
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“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.” -Mother Teresa
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“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” -Rosa Parks
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“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” -Carl Friedrich Gauss
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“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” -Bill Cosby
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“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” -Andre Breton
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