1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.” — Winston Churchill

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“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.” — Steve Jobs

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“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.” — Voltaire

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“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” — Voltaire

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“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” — Ernest Holmes

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“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.” — John Wooden

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“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.” — Maya Angelou

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“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” — Bill Watterson

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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” — Steve Jobs

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“Character develops itself in the stream of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.” — Julius Caesar

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain

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“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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