1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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“Life must be lived as play.” — Plato

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“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.” — Will Rogers

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

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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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“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.” — Robert Frost

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“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.” — Henry David Thoreau

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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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“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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“I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.” — Charles M. Schulz

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“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.” — Albert Camus

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“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.” — Nelson Mandela

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“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” — Voltaire

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“Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.” — Ayn Rand

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“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.” — Albert Camus

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“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain

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