1,004 private quotes tagged life

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

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

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“I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.” — Jerry Lewis

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

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

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” — Thomas Jefferson

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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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