“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
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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.”
“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”
“I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.”
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”