“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
“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.”
“I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”
“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”
“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”
“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”
“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.”
“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”
“I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.”
“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”
“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.”
“The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.”
“I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
“We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”