Life Quotes
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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.
William James
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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh
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A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'
David Mumford
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Life cannot teach if one is not able to overcome sufferings.
Arturo Graf
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Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.
Anthony Lawlor
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster
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My friend I wish health to you, I also wish wealth to you; I wish the best that life can give to you, And may dreams always come true to you. May fortune to kind to you, And happiness be true to you; And love be so sweet to you And life be long and good to you. And in this toast we give to you Our love we all give to you.
Willie Jolley
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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
Jose Saramago
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
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All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.
Aleida Guevara
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I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.
Dean Cain
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A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone.
Robert Frost
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It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.
Elijah Wood
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If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Nothing worries me in life anymore. When you find that best friend, that love, all your worries kind of go away.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation...
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
Seneca the Younger
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
John Milton
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God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
Josiah Royce
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Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.
Thomas Hearns
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An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me acting for the rest of my life.
Mila Kunis
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Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
Robin Williams