1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.” — Plato

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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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“The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” — William Shakespeare

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“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” — Albert Einstein

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“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” — Socrates

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“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'” — Richard Branson

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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso

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“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.” — Henry Ford

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