Herodotus Quotes

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Herodotus

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• Happiness
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• The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.

  

  Tara Reid
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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
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  • Life
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• Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
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• If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

  

  Victoria Clark
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• Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

  

  Dan Quinn
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• You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

  

  Tate Donovan
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• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
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• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
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• Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
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• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
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• I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Life
  • Person
  • Fantastic

• It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
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• If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Animals

• Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I'm not going to doubt my life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Doubt
  • My Life

• Each song has its own life.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Song
  • Own

• I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

  

  Natalia Kills
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• The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Emotion

• Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.

  

  Delphine de Vigan
  • Violence
  • Silence
  • Blood

• No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Appreciation

• Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

  

  Herodotus
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Happiness