1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life loves the liver of it.” — Maya Angelou

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

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” — Bertrand Russell

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

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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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“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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“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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

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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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“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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“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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“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.” — Henry Ford

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

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

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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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“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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“I bear a charmed life.” — William Shakespeare

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“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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