1,004 private quotes tagged life

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

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

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

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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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“The lie is a condition of life.” — 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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“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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“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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“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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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T. S. Eliot

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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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“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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“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.” — John F. Kennedy

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“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.” — Benjamin Franklin

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