Life Quotes
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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
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“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
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“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
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“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
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“The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”
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“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”
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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
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“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
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“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
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“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.”
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
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“Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.”
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“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
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“Life is too short for long-term grudges.”
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“You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
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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.”
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“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.”
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“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
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“The greatest pleasure of life is love.”
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“Don't go through life, grow through life.”
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“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
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“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.”
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“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”
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“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
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“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”
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“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”
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“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
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“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”
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“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
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“Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.”
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
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“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
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“To live is to think.”
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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
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“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
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“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
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“Life is a lot like jazz… it's best when you improvise.”
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“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
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“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
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“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
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“The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
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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.”
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“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.”
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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”
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“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
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“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
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“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”
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“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
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“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
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“Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.”
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“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
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“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.”
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“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”
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“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
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“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.”
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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.”
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“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
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“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”
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“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
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“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
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“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.”
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“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
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“To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.”
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“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
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“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'”
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“Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.”
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“We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.”
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“Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.”
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“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
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“Life is never easy for those who dream.”
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“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
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“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.”
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“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
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“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”
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“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”
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“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”
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“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.”
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“I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.”
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“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
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“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.”
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“Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.”
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“It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.”
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
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“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
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“What we play is life.”
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“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.”
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“Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.”
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“I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.”
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“I want to live my life, not record it.”
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“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”
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“Life is a lively process of becoming.”
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“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.”
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“Maybe that's what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
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“Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.”
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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
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“The difficulty in life is the choice.”
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“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”
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“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.”
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“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”
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“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
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“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
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“Life itself is the proper binge.”
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“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
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“To know nothing is the happiest life.”
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“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
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“Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.”
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“Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.”
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“There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.”
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“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
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“Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
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“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”
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“Life is too short to work so hard.”
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“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
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“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
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“How sweet it is!”
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“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”
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“Life is a work in progress.”
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“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.”
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“'Unbeing dead isn't being alive.' - e. e. cummings”
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“Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.”
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“I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.”
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“To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.”
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“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
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“Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.”
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“Each day is the scholar of yesterday.”
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“All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.”
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“The less routine the more life.”
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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
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“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.”
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“With renunciation life begins.”
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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”
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“Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway.”
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“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
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“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
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“We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.”
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“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
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“We pass through this world but once.”
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“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.”
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“You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.”
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“Life is wasted on the living.”
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“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.”
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“Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
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“The person lives twice who lives the first life well.”
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“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
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“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
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“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
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“Life is a horizontal fall.”
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“Life is a DNA software system.”
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“I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.”
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“Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.”
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“Life's more amusing than we thought.”
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“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
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“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.”
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“Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.”
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“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.”
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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
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“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.”
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“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
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“Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.”
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“He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.”
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“My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.”
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“If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.”
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
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“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?”
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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
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“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
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“Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.”
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“Life well spent is long.”
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“Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.”
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“This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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“Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.”
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“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.”
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“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”
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“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
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“Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.”
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“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.”
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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
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“Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.”
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“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.”
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“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
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“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
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“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.”
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“I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.”
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“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.”
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“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
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“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
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“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.”
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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
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“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
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“Into each life some rain must fall.”
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“That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.”
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“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
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“The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.”
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“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”
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“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
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“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.”
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“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.”
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“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
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“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
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“I am I plus my circumstances.”
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“I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.”
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“Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.”
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“Life has a higher end, than to be amused.”
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“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.”
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“Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.”
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“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
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“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”
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“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
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“There is just one life for each of us: our own.”
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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”
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“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.”
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“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
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“I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.”
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“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
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“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
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“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.”
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“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
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“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”
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“When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.”
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“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
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“Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.”
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“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
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“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
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“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
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“There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.”
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“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”
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“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
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“I love life because what more is there?”
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“Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
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“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”
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“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”
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“While there's life, there's hope.”
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“Life must be lived as play.”
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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
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“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
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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.”
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“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
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“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
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“My life is my message.”
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“Life loves the liver of it.”
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“Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.”
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“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
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“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
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“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
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“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
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“I bear a charmed life.”
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“My trade and art is to live.”
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“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
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“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
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“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
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“To be free is to have achieved your life.”
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“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.”
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“There is no wealth but life.”
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“The best path through life is the highway.”
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“I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.”
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“I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”
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“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
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“We live in the world when we love it.”
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“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
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“Art is the proper task of life.”
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“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
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“Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.”
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“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”
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“We cannot put off living until we are ready.”
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“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”
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“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
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“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
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“The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.”
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“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
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“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
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“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
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“Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'”
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“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
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“Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.”
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“Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.”
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“The real business of life is trying to understand each other.”
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“The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.”
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“I am all for the short and merry life.”
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“I had no blood relatives till I made some.”
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“Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.”
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“I do not regret one moment of my life.”
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“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”
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“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.”
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“Everything in life is luck.”
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“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”
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“In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.”
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“Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.”
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“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.”
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“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
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“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
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“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
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“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.”
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“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
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“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”
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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
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“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
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“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
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“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
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“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
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“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
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“If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.”
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“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.”
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“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
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“My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.”
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“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
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“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
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“Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.”
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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
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“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.”
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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
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“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
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“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
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“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
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“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
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“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
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“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
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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.”
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“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!”
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“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”
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“Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.”
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“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”
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“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.”
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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
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“Enjoy life… that's what we're here for.”
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“Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.”
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
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“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
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“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
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“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.”
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“I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I've always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.”
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“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
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“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
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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.”
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“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.”
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“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
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“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
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“My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life.”
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
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“It's really not about what you have. It's about how you're able to enjoy life in general.”
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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.”
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“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”
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“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
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“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
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“Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”
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“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
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“Attitude determines the altitude of life.”
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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
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“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
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“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
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“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
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“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
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“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
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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.”
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“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
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“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
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“Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.”
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“All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
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“Life is God's novel. Let him write it.”
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
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“I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.”
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“Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.”
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“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”
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“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.”
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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.”
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“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
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“See, life is a journey and every chapter is very interesting.”
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“You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to.”
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“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
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“Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.”
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“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”
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“In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
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“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”
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“Life is short, and every moment is precious.”
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“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
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“Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.”
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“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.”
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
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“Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.”
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“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
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“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
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“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
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“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”
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“Relax! Life is beautiful!”
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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
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“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”
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“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
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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?”
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“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
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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.”
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“Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.”
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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
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“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.”
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“Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”
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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
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“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.”
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“Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.”
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“Where there is love there is life.”
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“It doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.”
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“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.”
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“Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!”
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“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
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“Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
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“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.”
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“Slow down and enjoy life.”
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“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
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“The bottom line is to have fun and enjoy life.”
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“Use plants to bring life.”
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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.”
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“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
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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.”
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“Even in a world with much sadness, at its essence, life is beautiful.”
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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.”
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“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
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“When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.”
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“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
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“Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.”
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“Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.”
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“At every phase in our life, we make memories that we cherish all our lives.”
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“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
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“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.”
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“I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.”
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“The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.”
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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
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“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
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“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”
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“I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'”
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“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
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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.”
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“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”
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“Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.”
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“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”
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“Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.”
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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… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”
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“Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.”
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“Life is not always going to be roses and rainbows. You are going to have uncomfortable moments. It's what we do with those moments that is going to count and determine our destiny.”
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“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”
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“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
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“It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.”
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“Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.”
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“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
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“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
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“The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.”
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“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”
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“Life comes with pain.”
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“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
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“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.”
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“Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.”
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“I don 't know what the future holds, but what I know is that as long as I can enjoy life, anywhere is my stage.”
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“One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”
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“Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.”
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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.”
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“Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.”
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“Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.”
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“You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.”
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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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“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
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“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.”
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“Life is about perspective and how you look at something… ultimately, you have to zoom out.”
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
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“I'm not a hunter, but I've been around guns all my life. I'm a great shot.”
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“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
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“Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.”
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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
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“Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.”
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“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”
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“Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.”
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“You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.”
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“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”
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“It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.”
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“I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.”
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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
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“I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.”
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“The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.”
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“You only get one shot at life, one life to live, make the most out of it put as many smiles as you can on people's faces, help as many people as you can, get you some paper. Live life, you and your folks.”
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“Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.”
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“The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.”
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“Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.”
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“Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing - it can't fly.”
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“Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.”
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“Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life - we're striving for this perfection, and it's so unhealthy because there's no such thing as perfection.”
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“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
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“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
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“Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.”
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“A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.”
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“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.”
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“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.”
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“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
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“We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.”
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“Life is full of ups and downs. One needs to stay positive in life, no matter what.”
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“The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”
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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
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“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
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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.”
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“You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.”
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“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
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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.”
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“I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.”
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
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“Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.”
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“We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.”
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“Time is long but life is short.”
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“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”
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“It's basically the story of my life. Trying to paint the prettiest picture I can with the colors I have.”
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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
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“My life needs editing.”
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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.”
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“You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.”
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“The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
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“Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.”
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“You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.”
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“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”
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“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
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“An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.”
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“The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.”
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“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”
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“Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.”
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“Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.”
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“The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.”
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“There are no regrets in life, just lessons.”
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“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”
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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?”
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“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
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“Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.”
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“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.”
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“Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?”
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“It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.”
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“Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.”
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“Life is short, the art long.”
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“The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.”
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“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
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“No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.”
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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.”
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“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.”
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“Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'”
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“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
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“No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.”
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“No water, no life. No blue, no green.”
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“My life's attitude is simple: 'Make the best of what you have got. And move to the next. Thank God for what is coming my way and enjoy it completely.'”
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“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
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“Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.”
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“Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.”
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“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
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“Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.”
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“I don't care what it is in life: listen to your heart. If you do, no matter what, you win.”
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“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”
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“Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.”
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“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
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“Life is anything but predictable.”
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“'There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.' - bell hooks”
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“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”
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“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
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“I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.”
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“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.”
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“A life lived in fear is a life half lived.”
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“There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.”
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“Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.”
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“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
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“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.”
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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.”
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“I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.”
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“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”
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“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
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“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
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“You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.”
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“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”
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“Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.”
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“I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.”
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“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”
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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
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“Everything we want to do in life requires discipline. And like strength, flexibility, and endurance, it can be built up over time.”
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“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
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“I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.”
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“Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.”
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“Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.”
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“Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.”
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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.”
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“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
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“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”
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“Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.”
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“I am lucky to do what I do and enjoy life.”
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“Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.”
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“Life is all about having a good time.”
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“A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.”
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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.”
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“I decided to fly through the air and live in the sunlight and enjoy life as much as I could.”
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“Life is a mirror and you get back what you give out.”
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“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”
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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.”
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“Once your mind and body is healthy, it creates a freedom that helps you enjoy life.”
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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.”
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“I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.”
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“I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.”
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“The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.”
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“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
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“Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.”
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“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”
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“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
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“Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox… It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.”
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“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.”
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“You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.”
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“What you put into life is what you get out of it.”
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“Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.”
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“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”
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“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
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“The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”
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“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
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“Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.”
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“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.”
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“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.”
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“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
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“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
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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.”
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“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”
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“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”
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“Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.”
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“No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.”
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“I don't even call them fans. I don't like that. They're literally just a part of my life; they're a part of my family. I don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they're basically all of my siblings.”
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“I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.”
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“I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.”
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“Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.”
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“Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.”
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“I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!”
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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.”
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“If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.”
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“I am happy every day, because life is moving in a very positive way.”
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“We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.”
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“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.”
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“Life is a game and true love is a trophy.”
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“I am the queen of my own life and never take any pressure.”
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“I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.”
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“I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I'm grateful for that.”
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“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
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“Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.”
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“I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.”
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“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
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“The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.”
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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.”
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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
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“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
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“At the end of the day, life is too short to worry.”
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“Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.”
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“You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”
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“Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that's fine. I'm just going to keep being myself and living my life. That's all I can do.”
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“Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.”
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“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”
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“In life, it is important to not be afraid to put yourself out there, win or lose. It is all about the spirit of challenging yourself to be open to realizing your highest potential.”
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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.”
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“Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.”
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“Don't let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it's no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.”
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“Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.”
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“Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.”
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“Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.”
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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
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“There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?”
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“My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!”
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“There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.”
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“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
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“'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”
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“Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.”
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“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.”
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“I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.”
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“I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.”
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“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.”
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“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”
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“Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.”
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“May you live all the days of your life.”
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“We don't accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.”
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“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”
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“Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.”
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“No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.”
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“I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.”
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“Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.”
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“I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.”
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“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
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“I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”
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“To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.”
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“You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.”
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“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”
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“Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.”
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“Without football, my life is worth nothing.”
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“My life is mine to remember.”
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“You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.”
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“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.”
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“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”
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“See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil… I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.”
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“Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.”
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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.”
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“To be exceptional you have to be alone, that's the life of a warrior.”
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“Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.”
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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.”
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“Today's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life.”
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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!'”
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“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”
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“So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.”
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“In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.”
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“I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.”
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“The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.”
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“Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that.”
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“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.”
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“Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.”
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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.”
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“The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.”
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“Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.”
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“I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.”
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“Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.”
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“Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.”
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“It's a hard life… but if I could, I would do it all again.”
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“Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.”
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“Life is beautiful but people are crazy.”
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“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.”
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“Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.”
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“LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.”
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“Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.”
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“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
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“It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.”
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“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
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“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
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“My life is a roller coaster. A lot of good moments, a lot of bad moments, too. At the end of the day, it's all part of my experience.”
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“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
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“Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.”
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“Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.”
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“Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.”
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“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.”
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“I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.”
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“'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.”
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“No matter what you do, people are always going to have something negative to say about it. You could spend your life constantly trying to seek people's approval and validation, but there is always going to be someone that has something negative to say about what you're doing.”
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“Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.”
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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.”
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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.”
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“Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.”
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“America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.”
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“As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
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“Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.”
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“Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.”
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“With cyberbullying, one press of a finger on an electronic device can shatter someone's reputation and what they think is their entire life. It's scary.”
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“I believe it's so important to love life, enjoy it for its small moments and live without regrets - life is so unpredictable.”
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.”
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“Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.”
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“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
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“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”
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“The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.”
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“I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.”
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“I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.”
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.”
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“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
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“You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are!”
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“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”
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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
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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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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
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“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
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“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
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“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
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“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”
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“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
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“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
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“Water is life, and clean water means health.”
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
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“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
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“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
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“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”
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“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.”
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
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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.”
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“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
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“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
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“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”
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“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”
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“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
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“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
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“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
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“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.”
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“Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.”
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“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”
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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
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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.”
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“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
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“A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.”
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“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
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“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
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“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
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“The way to know life is to love many things.”
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“Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.”
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“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
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“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”
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“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
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“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”
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“Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.”
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“We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.”
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“Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.”
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“Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.”
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“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.”
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“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
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“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
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“Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.”
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“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
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“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.”
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“When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.”
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“Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.”
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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.”
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“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.”
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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
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“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
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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.”
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“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
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“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
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“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
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“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
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“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
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“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”
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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.”
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“Nothing in life is promised except death.”
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“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
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“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
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“Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.”
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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
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“There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”
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“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
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“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
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“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
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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.”
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”
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“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
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“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
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“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
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“The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.”
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“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
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“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
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“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
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“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”
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“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
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“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
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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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“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
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“Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
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“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
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“Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.”
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“And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
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“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.”
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“Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.”
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“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.”
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“I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.”
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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.”
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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
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“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
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“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
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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.”
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“This is the strangest life I've ever known.”
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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.”
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“Without discipline, there's no life at all.”
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“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.”
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“I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”
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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.”
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“The goal of all life is death.”
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“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
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“Life's so unpredictable. You never know when the next high or low will strike you. The trick is just to flow with the tide.”
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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
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“Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.”
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“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”
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“If you're serious about changing your life, you'll find a way. If you're not, you'll find an excuse.”
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“Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.”
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“You can't base your life on other people's expectations.”
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“Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.”
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“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”
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“I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.”
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“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”
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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.'”
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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
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“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
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“There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.”
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“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.”
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“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.”
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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.”
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“My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.”
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“We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.”
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“So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.”
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“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”
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“Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.”
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“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
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“If life gives you limes, make margaritas.”
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“I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.”
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“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”
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“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
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“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
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“Remembering what you've been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you're feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.”
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“Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.”
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“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”
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“Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.”
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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
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“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
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“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”
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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
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“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
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“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
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“Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.”
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“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.”
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“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
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“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.”
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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.”
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
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“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
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“Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.”
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“Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.”
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“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”
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“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
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“Money can't buy life.”
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“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
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“Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.”
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“If you don't live your life, then who will?”
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“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”
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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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“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.”
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“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
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“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
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“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”
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“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
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“I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.”
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“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
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“I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'”
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“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”
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“Always say 'yes' to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.”
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“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
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“Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”
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“Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.”
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“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
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“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
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“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.”
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“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
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“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”
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“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
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“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”