1,004 private quotes tagged life

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

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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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“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.” — George Carlin

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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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“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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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

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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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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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“Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” — Oscar Wilde

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“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” — Robert Frost

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“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.” — Maya Angelou

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

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“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.” — Steve Jobs

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

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