Life Quotes
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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Jacqueline Woodson
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There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end. It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out of life, It cut down evil’s strangling vines, Like a slashing searing knife.
Bobby Sands -
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao Tzu -
When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.
Chester Bennington Linkin Park -
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Babasaheb -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Albert Einstein -
Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
Sophocles -
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
Albert Einstein
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
Oscar Wilde -
You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.
Joe Walsh The Eagles -
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Oscar Wilde -
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
Albert Einstein -
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
J. C. Ryle
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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.
B. F. Skinner -
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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.
Viggo Mortensen -
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Dag Hammarskjold