1,004 private quotes tagged life

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

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

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

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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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“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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“The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“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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“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.” — Muhammad Ali

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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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“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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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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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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“I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.” — Henry Rollins

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“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.” — Humphry Davy

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“The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.” — E. W. Howe

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“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” — William James

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