1,004 private quotes tagged life

“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.” — Albert Camus

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“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.” — Albert Camus

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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

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“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.” — George Carlin

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

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“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” — Samuel Butler

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“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Life must be lived as play.” — Plato

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“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.” — Albert Camus

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” — Francis Bacon

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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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“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain

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“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.” — Ayn Rand

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“The lie is a condition of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” — Robert Frost

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” — Henry David Thoreau

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