1,004 private quotes tagged life

“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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“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” — Voltaire

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

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

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“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy

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

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“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.” — Will Rogers

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“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” — Martin Luther

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

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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill

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“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.” — Plato

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“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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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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