Life Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Woody Allen,
Albert Camus,
Terri Guillemets,
Mignon McLaughlin,
Antonio Porchia,
Henry David Thoreau
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| Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. |
| - Douglas Adams |
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| Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. |
| - Joseph Addison |
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| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. |
| - Sherwood Anderson |
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| Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go." |
| - Maya Angelou |
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| Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? |
| - Jean Anouilh |
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| The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. |
| - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
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| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. |
| - Isaac Asimov |
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| God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Life is simple, its just not easy. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Life is unsure, always eat your dessert first. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you? |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. |
| - Richard Bach |
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| Life is a long lesson in humility. |
| - Sir James Matthew Barrie |
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| God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. |
| - Henry Ward Beecher |
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| When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." |
| - Erma Bombeck |
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| I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no. |
| - Richard Branson |
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| Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. |
| - Ashleigh Brilliant |
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| My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. |
| - Ashleigh Brilliant |
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| I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. |
| - Rupert Brooke |
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| Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. |
| - Mel Brooks |
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| It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. |
| - Phillips Brooks |
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| The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. |
| - Heywood Broun |
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| You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. |
| - Warren Buffet |
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| Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| The purpose of life is a life of purpose. |
| - Robert Byrne |
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| You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. |
| - Albert Camus |
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| For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. |
| - Albert Camus |
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| Life is the sum of all your choices. |
| - Albert Camus |
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| The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. |
| - Thomas Carlyle |
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| It is not always recognized that, to function best, morality should sometimes appear unfair, like most worldly outcomes. The craving for perfect fairness causes a lot of terrible problems in system function. Some systems should be made deliberately unfair to individuals because they’ll be fairer on average for all of us. I frequently cite the example of having your career over, in the Navy, if your ship goes aground, even if it wasn’t your fault. I say the lack of justice for the one guy that wasn’t at fault is way more than made up by a greater justice for everybody when every captain of a ship always sweats blood to make sure the ship doesn’t go aground. Tolerating a little unfairness to some to get a greater fairness for all is a model I recommend to all of you. |
| - Munger Charlie |
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| Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. |
| - Anton Chekhov |
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| We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. |
| - Confucius |
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| You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. |
| - Quentin Crisp |
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| Unbeing dead isn't being alive. |
| - E.E. Cummings |
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| To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. |
| - Emily Dickinson |
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| Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. |
| - Henry Van Dyke |
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| But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. |
| - Umberto Ecco |
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| If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. |
| - Paul Eldridge |
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| Perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. |
| - George Eliot |
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| I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. |
| - T.S. Eliot |
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| All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. |
| - Havelock Ellis |
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| To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. |
| - Havelock Ellis |
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| I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me. |
| - Richard P. Feynman |
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| Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. |
| - F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can. |
| - Henry Ford |
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| Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. |
| - Erich Fromm |
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| In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. |
| - Robert Frost |
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| Life is a series of collisions with the future. |
| - José Ortega y Gasset |
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| There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. |
| - José Ortega y Gasset |
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| Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. |
| - Brendan Gill |
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| Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| It's just life. Just live it. |
| - Terri Guillemets |
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| Life is one big judgment call. |
| - Terri Guillemets |
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| The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. |
| - Terri Guillemets |
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| You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself. |
| - Terri Guillemets |
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| You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. |
| - Barbara Hall |
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| I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. |
| - Jack Handey |
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| The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. |
| - Robert A. Heinlein |
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| Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. |
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes |
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| Life is just one damned thing after another. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. |
| - James Gibbons Huneker |
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| The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
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| Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. |
| - Jerome K. Jerome |
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| Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. |
| - Garrison Keillor |
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| Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. |
| - Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. |
| - Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. |
| - Joseph Wood Krutch |
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| Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. |
| - R.D. Laing |
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| Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. |
| - Fran Lebowitz |
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| I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. |
| - Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
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| Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. |
| - Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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| Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. |
| - Arthur Miller |
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| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. |
| - Henry Miller |
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| Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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| Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. |
| - Ogden Nash |
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| He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. |
| - Kathleen Norris |
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| Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. |
| - Dorothy Parker |
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| The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. |
| - William Lyon Phelps |
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| There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. |
| - William Lyon Phelps |
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| Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? |
| - Anthony Robbins |
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| There is no wealth but life. |
| - John Ruskin |
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| Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. |
| - Vita Sackville-West |
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| Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. |
| - Charles M. Schulz |
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| Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. |
| - Charles M. Schulz |
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| Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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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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| Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| The unexamined life is not worth living for man. |
| - Socrates |
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| A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. |
| - Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Life is something that everyone should try at least once. |
| - Henry J. Tillman |
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| Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Life is a zoo in a jungle. |
| - Peter De Vries |
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| The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. |
| - Peter De Vries |
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| Life itself is a matter of salesmanship. |
| - Thomas Watson |
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| I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. |
| - Bill Watterson |
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| I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. |
| - Elwyn Brooks White |
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| ...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. |
| - Walt Whitman |
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| Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit. |
| - Jonathan Winters |
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| I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. |
| - Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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