1,004 private quotes tagged life

“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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“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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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” — Aristotle

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“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” — Albert Camus

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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” — George Washington

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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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“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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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” — Plato

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“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” — Carl Sandburg

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“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” — Samuel Butler

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“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” — Oscar Wilde

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“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” — Tennessee Williams

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“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.” — Leon Trotsky

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“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” — James M. Barrie

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“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

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“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

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