1,004 private quotes tagged life

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.” — Aristotle

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“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” — William Shakespeare

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“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” — Aristotle

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“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” — Albert Camus

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“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” — George Washington

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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” — Plato

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“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.” — Robert Frost

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“Life in abundance comes only through great love.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.” — Maya Angelou

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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!” — Ronald Reagan

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“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.” — Dave Barry

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“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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