Life Quotes
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The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
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When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.
Hal Elrod
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Make life an art rather than art from life.
David Gilmour
Pink Floyd
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I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
Jim Crace
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It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
Lynsey Addario
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Living is not breathing but doing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Philip Zimbardo
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I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time.
Svetlana Alexievich
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences in my journal, than I do in reading much. Novels, even if they are good, pass out of my memory very rapidly. I enjoy it as I should a scene at the theatre; but am not essentially benefited by the incidents or morals. What more desirable at this period of my life than to find sources of daily peace and joy from within; that I think is true life.
Abby May Alcott
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We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.
Annia Ciezadlo
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If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror.
Byron Katie
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If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.
David Howell Evans
U2
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
Lord Byron
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If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.
Blake Judd
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A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
Dalai Lama