1,004 private quotes tagged life

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

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“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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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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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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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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