1,004 private quotes tagged life

“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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“Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.” — 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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“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” — Steve Jobs

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

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

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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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“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.” — Dalai Lama

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

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

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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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“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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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.” — Swami Vivekananda

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“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” — Steve Jobs

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“The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.” — Dalai Lama

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

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