Life Quotes
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I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.
Charles Dickens
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Willa Cather
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Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.
Bill Mollison
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I will not walk backward in life.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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My body had taken on a life of its own, in which it wept while I remained an embarrassed parent, unable to control its excesses.
Amanda Craig
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The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.
John Calvin
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This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
Seneca the Younger
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I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
Ardel Wray
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I may not go down in the hall of fame, but I’m gonna enjoy my life. I’m gonna enjoy it for what it is.
Jack Owen Cannibal Corpse
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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
John Lennon The Beatles
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The person who has the most to do what happens to you in life is you. Not somebody else and not the environment.
Benjamin Carson
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My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.
John Prine
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Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.
Anthony Robbins
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Design your life.
Amy Chan
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While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.
Eugene O'Neill
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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
Erma Bombeck
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My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.
Kevin Costner
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Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.
Anthony Robbins
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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.
Sebastian Junger
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It's the moments of our life that shape us.
Anthony Robbins
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It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.
Dustin Hoffman