1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” — Isaac Asimov

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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” — Norman Cousins

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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” — E. M. Forster

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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.” — Vladimir Nabokov

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“I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.” — B. F. Skinner

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“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” — Euripides

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“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” — Anais Nin

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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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“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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“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” — Emily Bronte

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“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.” — Wallis Simpson

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“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” — Joseph Campbell

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” — Rick Warren

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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” — Lucille Ball

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“Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.” — Thomas S. Monson

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“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.” — Mary McLeod Bethune

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“Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.” — Dan Millman

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