Life Quotes
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into 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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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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There isn’t time-so brief is life-for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving-and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
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You can't just come into someone's life, make them feel special, and then leave.
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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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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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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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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
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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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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
