1,004 private quotes tagged life

“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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“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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“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

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“The lie is a condition of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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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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“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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“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.” — Mark Twain

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

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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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