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 | ""Man wants but little here below" but likes that little good?and not
too long in coming." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "A Few Rules OF Life ? Stay in Tune with the Spirit. ? Take the
Power. ? Act with Courage. ? Lean Into It. ? Anticipate and Plan. ? Act
Successful ... Be Successful. ? See the Broad Perspective. ? Take 100%
Responsibility. ? Seek No Ego-Satisfaction. ? Keep Every Commitment. ? Be
Always A Gentleman. ? Have The Majesty of Calmness. ? Forgive, Forget and
Let It Roll Off. ? Radiate Happiness. ? Don"t Wobble." | |
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C. Smith Sumner
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| "A life is not important, except in the impact it has on other
lives" | |
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Jackie Robinson
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| "A man"s life is what his thoughts make of it. Our life is what our
thoughts make it." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and
stare." | |
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William Henry Davies
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| "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change ? this is
the rhythm of living. Out of our overconfidence, fear; out of our fear,
clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress." | |
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Bruce Barton
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| "All that we are not stares back at what we are." | |
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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| "All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt
diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the
chess-board white?we call it black." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "An unexamined life is not worth living." | |
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Socrates
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| "And how am I to face the odds Of man"s bedevilment and God"s? I, a
stranger and afraid In a world I never made." | |
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Alfred Edward Housman
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| "And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." | |
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"Grandma" Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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| "As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the
greatest success in life." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was
lived for." | |
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David Starr Jordan
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| "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work
and to play and to look up at the stars." | |
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Henry van Dyke
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| "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things,
not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast
forever One grand sweet song." | |
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Charles Kingsley
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| "Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do.
Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build
on opinion or custom, or what you guess is true. Make it a matter of
certainty!" | |
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T. Starr King
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| "Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes; so
shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything
that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise." | |
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Akhenaton
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| "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art
of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of
nonessentials." | |
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Lin Yutang, Yu Tang
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| "Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys
stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing." | |
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Andre Malraux
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| "But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of
repetitions." | |
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David Herbert Lawrence
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| "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit." | |
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Henry B. Adams
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| "Conduct is three-fourths of life and its largest concern." | |
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Matthew Arnold
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| "Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all
essential to successful life." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Death and adversity come to us all, but so does life
everlasting!" | |
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Joy F. Evans
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| "Death and taxes and childbirth. There"s never any convenient time
for any of them." | |
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Margaret Mitchell
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| "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It
is not something discovered: it is something moulded." | |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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| "Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor
ought to be to set off that spark in one another." | |
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Kenny Ausubel
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| "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find it." | |
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The Bible
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| "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 has had its hand in
molding us, shaping us" | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting
with being in the world." | |
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Cesare Pavese
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| "Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right
to make a comfortable living." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain
and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate
boundary." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Everyone is in the best seat." | |
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John Cage
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| "Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help
himself." | |
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Alexis Carrel
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|
| "Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the
resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are
never used." | |
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Richard E. Byrd
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| "Fill ev"ryglass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage,
love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on
earth desirous?" | |
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John Gay
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| "Fill what"s empty, empty what"s full, and scratch where it
itches." | |
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Duchess of Windsor
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| "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in
which to get themselves filed." | |
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Clifton Fadiman
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| "Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may
add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes
a life." | |
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Arthur Ashe
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|
| "Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out
my life with coffee spoons." | |
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T. S. Eliot
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|
| "He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice
of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty
of affection." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first." | |
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George Canning
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| "I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his
generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to
his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his
battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of
circumstances. And he hasn"t the slightest idea of what I"m going to do.
So when the time comes, I"m going to whip the hell out of him." | |
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General George Smith Patton, Jr.
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| "I should have no objection to go over the same life from its
beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of
correcting in a second edition, the faults of the first." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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|
| "I swear ? by my life and my love of it ? that I will never live for
the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with
it." | |
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Sir Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of Brighton
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| "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark
should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live,
not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall
use my time." | |
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Jack London
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|
| "If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real
nihilism, the real undoing of the world." | |
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Reginald Horace Blyth
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| "If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I
can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "If you don?t like life, its the way you?re livin? A little less
takin?, a bit more givin?; A little less hatin?, a little more lovin?; A
little more helpin?, not o much shovin?; A little more smilin?, not so
much strife, And soon you will be in love with life." | |
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J. W. T. Meehan
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| "If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which
has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life that you ought
to be living is the one you are living." | |
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Joseph Campbell
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|
| "If you found a man at the top of the mountain, he did not fall
there." | |
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Unknown
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| "If you haven"t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you
must accept the terms it offers you." | |
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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| "If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm." | |
|
Elizabeth Bowen
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|
| "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real
life." | |
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Simone Weil
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| "Important rules to watch in living. Keep life simple. Avoid watching
for a knock in your motor. Learn to like work. Have a good hobby. Learn to
be satisfied. Like people, say cheerful pleasant things. Turn the defeat
of adversity into victory. Meet your problems with decision. Make the
present moment a success. Always be planning something. Say "nuts" to
irritations." | |
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John A. Schindler, MD
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|
| "In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the
simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don"t try to
control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely
present." | |
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Tao Te Ching
|
|
| "In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
|
|
| "In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes
on." | |
|
Robert Frost
|
|
| "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what
life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life,
and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by
life ? daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and
meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately
means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems
and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each
individual." | |
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Viktor E. Frankl
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|
| "It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we
are accountable." | |
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Jean Baptiste Moliare
|
|
| "It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It"s one
damn thing over and over." | |
|
Edna St. Vincent Millay
|
|
| "It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is
nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that
may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible
number of lives in all periods of time." | |
|
|
|
| "It is with life as with a play?it matters not how long the action is
spun out, but how good the acting is." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
|
|
| "It"s as large as life and twice as natural." | |
|
Lewis Carroll
|
|
| "Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." | |
|
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
|
|
| "Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset ...
there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase "Reverence
for Life"." | |
|
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
|
|
| "Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need ? a
homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name,
someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two,
enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink;
for thirst is a dangerous thing." | |
|
Jerome Klapka Jerome
|
|
| "Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a
glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is
almost unnoticed." | |
|
Guatama Buddha
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|
| "Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before
the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with
statues." | |
|
Phillips Brooks
|
|
| "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you
hold well." | |
|
Josh Billings
|
|
| "Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties
which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them
will ever return?" | |
|
Dame Margot Fonteyn
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|
| "Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue
waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children?s
faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that
love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit?s still delight, Holy
thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it
and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a
year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have
been, or could be." | |
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Sara Teasdale
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|
| "Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to
get it right the first time." | |
|
Margaret Mead
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|
| "Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it." | |
|
Charles Swindoll
|
|
| "Life is a big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." | |
|
Danny Kaye
|
|
| "Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving." | |
|
Michael J. Gelb
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|
| "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the
rich, a tragedy for the poor." | |
|
Sholom Aleichem
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|
| "Life is a long headache in a noisy street." | |
|
John Edward Masefield
|
|
| "Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third
act." | |
|
Truman Capote
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|
| "Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a
great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal
of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a
service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their
personal happiness." | |
|
Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
|
|
| "Life is a school of probability." | |
|
Walter Bagehot
|
|
| "Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always
returns." | |
|
Charles Feidelson, Jr.
|
|
| "Life is a sexually transmitted disease." | |
|
Guy Bellamy
|
|
| "Life is a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the
hardest." | |
|
Wilson Mizner
|
|
| "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in
long-shot." | |
|
Charlie Chaplin
|
|
| "Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always
zapped in the end." | |
|
John Updike
|
|
| "Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history
books ? but it is terrible when one has to live it." | |
|
Jean Anouilh
|
|
| "Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by so
quick you hardly catch it going." | |
|
Tennessee Williams
|
|
| "Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of
the Universe." | |
|
Alfred North Whitehead
|
|
| "Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less
boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it." | |
|
Alice Walker
|
|
| "Life is but thought." | |
|
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
|
|
| "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering ? and it"s all
over much too soon." | |
|
Woody Allen
|
|
| "Life is hard. After all, it kills you." | |
|
Katherine Hepburn
|
|
| "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man
could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really
merely commonplaces of existence." | |
|
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
|
|
| "Life is life"s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as
you would your own because it is your own. On life"s scale of values, the
smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the
largest." | |
|
Lloyd Biggle Jr.
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|
| "Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the
key." | |
|
Alan Bennet
|
|
| "Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only
spend it once." | |
|
Lillian Dickson
|
|
| "Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much
to get so little." | |
|
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
|
|
| "Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and
instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for
they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often." | |
|
Samuel Butler
|
|
| "Life is made of ever so many partings welded together." | |
|
Charles Dickens
|
|
| "Life is made up of marble and mud." | |
|
Nathaniel Hawthorne
|
|
| "Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles
predominating." | |
|
O. Henry
|
|
| "Life is mostly froth and bubble; two things stand like stone:
kindness in another"s trouble, courage in our own." | |
|
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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|
| "Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some
honors!" | |
|
Louisa May Alcott
|
|
| "Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament." | |
|
George Santayana
|
|
| "Life is not living, but living in health." | |
|
Marcus Valerius Martialis
|
|
| "Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle
deliberation how it shall be spent." | |
|
Samuel Johnson
|
|
| "Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by
dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways." | |
|
Stephen Vincent Benét
|
|
| "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." | |
|
Thomas J. "Tom" Peters
|
|
| "Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within
us." | |
|
Sir Thomas Browne
|
|
| "Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we"re all of us looking for
the key." | |
|
Alan Bennett
|
|
| "Life is ten percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take
it." | |
|
Irving Berlin
|
|
| "Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion, it is a
business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice
is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may
fairly measure him." | |
|
Ben Ames Williams
|
|
| "Life is the continuous adjustment of external relations." | |
|
Herbert Spencer
|
|
| "Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the
third." | |
|
MARGE Piercy
|
|
| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." | |
|
Victor Hugo
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|
| "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to
pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the
greater is their power to harm us." | |
|
Francois Voltaire
|
|
| "Life is too short for traffic." | |
|
Dan Bellack
|
|
| "Life is wasted on the living." | |
|
Zaphod Beeblebrox IV
|
|
| "Life is what we make it, and the world is what we make it. The eyes
of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same
creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to
them." | |
|
Albert Pike
|
|
| "Life isn"t a matter of milestones but of moments." | |
|
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
|
|
| "Life isn"t all beer and skittles." | |
|
Hughes Thomas
|
|
| "Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of
which I disapprove." | |
|
Ashleigh Brilliant
|
|
| "Life means to have something definite to do--a mission to
fulfill--and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to
something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be
dedicated to something." | |
|
José Ortega y Gasset
|
|
| "Life must be lived as play." | |
|
Plato
|
|
| "Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One
must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." | |
|
Eleanor Roosevelt
|
|
| "LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live
in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed." | |
|
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
|
|
| "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of each day
and hour." | |
|
Stephen Butler Leacock
|
|
| "LITTLE THINGS Oh, it"s just the little homely things, The
unobtrusive friendly things, The "won"t you let me help you" things That
make our pathway light; And it"s just the jolly joking things, The "never
mind the trouble" things, The "laugh with me, it"s funny" things, That
make the world seem bright. For all the countless famous things, The
wondrous record breaking things, Those never-can-be-equalled things That
all the papers cite, Are not like little human things The"just because I
like you" things That make us happy quite. So here"s to all the little
things, The "done and then forgotten" things, Those "Oh, it"s simply
nothing" things, That make life "worth the fight." ?Grace Haines" | |
|
Grace Haines
|
|
| "Live life to the fullest." | |
|
Ernest Hemingway
|
|
| "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life." | |
|
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
|
|
| "Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice." | |
|
Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort
|
|
| "Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long." | |
|
Oliver Goldsmith
|
|
| "Man wants but little; nor that little, long." | |
|
Edward Young
|
|
| "Man"s activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these
aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the
contemplative life (that is, the Hero)." | |
|
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
|
|
| "Man?s love is of man?s life a thing apart, ?Tis woman?s whole
existence." | |
|
Lord George Gordon Byron
|
|
| "My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one
another: and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind." | |
|
Mahatma Gandhi
|
|
| "My trade and my art is living." | |
|
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
|
|
| "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a
victim. Accept no one"s definition of your life; define yourself." | |
|
Harvey Fierstein
|
|
| "Never take life seriously, no one ever comes out alive
anyway." | |
|
Allie Hemphill
|
|
| "No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and
all life not be purer and stronger thereby." | |
|
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
|
|
| "No life is so hard that you can"t make it easier by the way you take
it." | |
|
Ellen Glasgow
|
|
| "Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies." | |
|
Adrienne Gusoff
|
|
| "Nothing in life is to feared. It is only to be understood." | |
|
Madame Marie Curie
|
|
| "O life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To
wretches such as I!" | |
|
Robert Burns
|
|
| "O threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is
certain - This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The
Flower that once has bloomed for ever dies." | |
|
Omar Khayyam
|
|
| "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have
more things, more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they
will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first
be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what
you want." | |
|
Margaret Young
|
|
| "One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and
filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of
paltry decorum." | |
|
Sir Walter Scott
|
|
| "One life,?a little gleam of time between two Eternities." | |
|
John Keats
|
|
| "One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct
tape to make them stop." | |
|
George Weilacher
|
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| "One thing at least is certain ? This life flies; One thing is
certain and the rest is lies; The Flower that once has blown forever
dies." | |
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Edward Fitzgerald
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| "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life: that word is
love." | |
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Sophocles
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| "Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he
alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other
people will alter towards him." | |
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James Allen
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| "Our lives are but our marches to the grave." | |
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Francis Beaumont
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| "People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have
allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the
lives they lead." | |
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James Baldwin
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| "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,? These three alone
lead life to sovereign power." | |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which
is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing:
no one to blame." | |
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Erica Jong
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| "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For
the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is
real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to
dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul" | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "The art of life is the art of avoiding pain." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like
candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained
if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception." | |
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Edward Verrall Lucas
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| "The basic fact about human existence is not that it is A tragedy,
but that it is a bore." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party,
when the masks are dropped." | |
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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| "The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the
chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second
half by our children." | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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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 outstanding accuracy." | |
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Florence Schovel
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| "The goal of life is immanent in each moment, each thought, word,
act, and does not have to be sought apart from these. It consists in no
specific achievement, but the state of mind in which everything is done,
the quality infused into existence. The function of man is not to attain
an object, but to fulfill a purpose; not to accomplish but to be
accomplished." | |
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S. E. Stanton
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| "The good die young, because they see it"s no use living if you have
got to be good." | |
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John Barrymore
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| "The great doing of little things makes the great life." | |
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Eugenia Price
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| "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and
which to burn." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being
governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction
of another is somewhat of a dead thing." | |
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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| "The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some
people it is a complete substitute for life." | |
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Andrew Brown
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| "The less routine the more life." | |
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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| "The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless
cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends
upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends upon
how much you want it?how much you are willing to work and plan and
cooperate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life
is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why
today is such an important day. Make the cables strong!" | |
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L. G. Elliott
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| "The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly
ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be
impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the
days of your life." | |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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| "The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good
enough for our fathers is not good enough for us." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the
love of ourselves." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any
undertaking." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life
is what you become." | |
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Jim Rohn
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| "The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life
the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what
other people think ... It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives
to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts,
it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed
by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede
where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain
unafraid when he finds himself alone." | |
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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| "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one
knows." | |
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Farrar
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| "The quality of life is determined by its activities." | |
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Aristotle
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| "The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of
extremists we will be." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "The shaping of our own life is our own work. It is a thing of
beauty, or a thing of shame, as we ourselves make it." | |
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Henry Ware
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| "The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what
they miss." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "The true men of old were not afraid when they stood alone in their
views. No great exploits. No plans. If they failed, no sorrow. No
self-congratulation in success.... The true men of old knew no lust for
life, no dread of death. Their entrance was without gladness, their exit,
yonder, without resistance. Easy come, easy go. They did not forget where
from, nor ask where to, nor drive grimly forward fighting their way
through life. They took life as it came, gladly; took death as it came,
without care; and went away, yonder. Yonder! They had no mind to fight
Tao. They did not try by their own contriving, to help Tao along. These
are the ones we call true men. Minds free, thoughts gone. Brows clear,
faces serene." | |
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Chuang Tzu
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| "THE WANTS OF MAN ?Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that
little long.?* ?Tis not with me exactly so, But ?tis so in the song. My
wants are many, and if told Would muster many a score; And were each wish
a mint of gold, I still should long for more. *from Oliver Goldsmith?s
Hermit." | |
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John Quincy Adams
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| "The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team
and who just miss the prizes at the flower show." | |
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Jacob Bronowski
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| "The world"s a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One
is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be
avoided." | |
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Charles P. Curtis
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| "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "There are so many options, so much to do, so many demands on Women.
There is no point in taking one hour to do a ten-minute task, nor should
we slap together an hour-worthy project in ten minutes." | |
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Elaine Cannon
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| "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the
mirror that reflects it." | |
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Edith Wharton
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| "There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that
"life is just one damned thing after another".... Human affairs do not
become intelligible until they are seen as a whole." | |
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Arnold Toynbee
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| "There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life
by the unfolding of his powers." | |
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Erich Fromm
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| "There is no sadder grief than that which lies at the bottom of a
life that has been wrecked through deception" | |
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Lemuel K. Washburn
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| "There is no wealth but life." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be
true to the best one knows." | |
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George Eliot
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| "There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that
is, not to be true to the best one knows." | |
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Frederic William Farrar
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| "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own
way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." | |
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Christopher Darlington Morley
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| "This life at best is but an inn, And we the passengers." | |
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James Howell
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| "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it,
from the moral point of view." | |
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William James
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| "To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet
the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my
work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of
little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men
and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle,
kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with
weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well
done?this is how I desire to spend wisely my days." | |
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Thomas Dreier
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| "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is
the only end of life." | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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| "To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts,
is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society ? reverence
for life." | |
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Jon Evans
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| "To live is to function. That is all there is in living." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as
it is and not as it should be!" | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "We all live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on
them." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged
than those who have obliged us." | |
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La Rockefoucauld
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| "We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach
some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us
seriously." | |
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Albert Camus
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| "We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for
such, but for what we are capable of being." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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