1,004 private quotes tagged life

“We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.” — Steve Jobs

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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

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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

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“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.” — Plato

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

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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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“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” — Will Rogers

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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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“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.” — Tennessee Williams

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