1,004 private quotes tagged life

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

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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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“I bear a charmed life.” — William Shakespeare

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“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

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“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.” — Dalai Lama

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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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“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.” — Aristotle

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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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“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” — Aristotle

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“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” — Marcus Aurelius

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

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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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“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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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” — Lao Tzu

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“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.” — George Eliot

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“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” — Carl Jung

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“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” — Mark Twain

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“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Life well spent is long.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.” — Anatole France

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