1,004 private quotes tagged life

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

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

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

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

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

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“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.” — Albert Camus

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

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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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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

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“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.” — Mark Twain

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

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

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“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.” — Maya Angelou

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