1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life well spent is long.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“I bear a charmed life.” — William Shakespeare

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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” — Carl Jung

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“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.” — Anatole France

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“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.” — Albert Camus

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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” — Martin Luther

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“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.” — William Feather

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“I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.” — John Lennon

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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” — Plato

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.” — Albert Einstein

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“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.” — Plato

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“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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