1,004 private quotes tagged life

“I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.” — James Cash Penney

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“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.” — Steve Martin

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“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — E. M. Forster

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“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.” — Jim Carrey

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“Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.” — Steven Tyler

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“You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.” — Sai Baba

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“You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.” — Wayne Dyer

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“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.” — Thomas Merton

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“Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.” — Gerald Massey

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“Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson

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“People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.” — Carl Lewis

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“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.” — Eileen Caddy

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“You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.” — Johnny Depp

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“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

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“I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.” — Les Brown

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“Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.” — Chris Burke

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“It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Children make your life important.” — Erma Bombeck

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“Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.” — Lydia Lunch

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“Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” — Jean Anouilh

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“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” — Patrick Henry

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“There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.” — Marcus Garvey

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