“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.”
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“The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.”
“If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?”
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“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”
“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
“Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'”
“Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.”
“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
“My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'”
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
“It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.”
“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”
“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”
“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”