1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

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“There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.” — Albert Einstein

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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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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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“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.” — Henry Ford

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“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.” — Plato

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“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” — Will Rogers

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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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“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.” — Tennessee Williams

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“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.” — Robert Frost

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“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.” — Charles M. Schulz

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