Confucius Quotes

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Confucius

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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Understand
  • Credit

• The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Life
  • Change
  • Respect

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• 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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • You
  • Opinion

• You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Laugh

• I am and will always be a Laker for life.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Laker

• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Diversity

• All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Day
  • Myself

• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Kind

• When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Life
  • Know
  • Deep

• Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Life
  • Team
  • Training

• I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Really, I don't like roller coasters.

  

  Kevin Hart

• We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Justice
  • Spring

• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Suicide

• Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • War

• You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

  

  Confucius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Understand