1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.” — Helen Keller

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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” — Henry Ford

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“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.” — Confucius

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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” — Socrates

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“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.” — Tony Robbins

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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.” — Samuel Butler

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“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.” — Voltaire

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus

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“While there's life, there's hope.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Life itself is the proper binge.” — Julia Child

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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.” — Winston Churchill

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“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.” — Conan O'Brien

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“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.” — Aristotle

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“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” — Lord Byron

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“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” — Socrates

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“Art is the proper task of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.” — Oscar Wilde

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