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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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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We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.
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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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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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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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My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.
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You can't just come into someone's life, make them feel special, and then leave.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family 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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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Living without passion is like being dead.
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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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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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Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.
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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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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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My life is good, so I ain’t worrying about it. … Well, good luck.
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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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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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Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
