1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” — Henry Rollins

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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.” — Jean Ingelow

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“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.” — Stephen King

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“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” — Cary Grant

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“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” — Keith Sweat

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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” — Albert Ellis

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“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.” — Joseph Campbell

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“I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.” — Ron Paul

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“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.” — Gilda Radner

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“I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.” — Al Lopez

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“There is just one life for each of us: our own.” — Euripides

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“We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.” — Lauren Hutton

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“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.” — Tupac Shakur

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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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“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” — Zig Ziglar

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“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.” — Charlie Sheen

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“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.” — Hugh Prather

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“I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.” — Sting

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“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” — Joel Osteen

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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” — Alan Cohen

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“There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.” — Stephen Covey

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