1,004 private quotes tagged life

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” — Socrates

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“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.” — Carl Sandburg

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“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.” — Dave Barry

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“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.” — Will Rogers

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“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” — Winston Churchill

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“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” — Ayn Rand

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“Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” — Helen Keller

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“A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.” — Khalil Gibran

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