1,004 private quotes tagged life

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” — Emily Dickinson

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“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.” — Barbara Bush

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“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.” — John C. Maxwell

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“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.” — Emile Zola

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“Life is too short to work so hard.” — Vivien Leigh

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“I need drama in my life to keep making music.” — Eminem

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“Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” — Irving Berlin

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“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.” — Tom Cochrane

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“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.” — Nikki Giovanni

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“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” — Wilma Rudolph

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“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” — Joseph Addison

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“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.” — Joseph Campbell

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“Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.” — W.C. Fields

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“This is the strangest life I've ever known.” — Jim Morrison

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“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” — Joseph Campbell

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“I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.” — Kurt Cobain

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“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” — Joseph Campbell

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“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.” — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi

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“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” — Joseph Campbell

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“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein

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“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.” — Thomas Merton

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“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.” — Caleb Carr

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