1,004 private quotes tagged life

“He who has a "why" to live for can bear any "how".” — Nietsche

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“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha

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“If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction.”

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“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Live the life you've dreamed.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” — Arthur C. Clarke

Source:Visions How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First C...

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“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.” — Buddha

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“The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.” — Buddha

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“Death is the best invention of life.” — Steve Jobs

Source:http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/7b7ae3-steve-jobs-inter...

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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” — Ernest Hemingway

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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'” — Muhammad Ali

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“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.” — Maya Angelou

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“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.'” — Jeff Bezos

Context:On why he started Amazon

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“Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it. And you have to open your heart to what the world can show you. And sometimes it's terrifying. And sometimes it's incredibly beautiful. And I'll take both, thanks.” — Graham Nash

Source:Wisdom (2008). Film.

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“My life is my message.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” — Carl Sandburg

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“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” — Muhammad Ali

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