1,004 private quotes tagged life

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

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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Confucius

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“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for 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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“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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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” — Steve Jobs

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

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

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

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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 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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“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” — Woody Allen

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“To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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