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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain mock the pain reduce it. And laugh.

Jim Carrey

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Everywhere in life the true question is not what we gain but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Thomas Carlyle

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Bob Dylan

Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Ingrid Bergman

Once in his life every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Lucille Ball

We don't get a chance to do that many things and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief and then you die you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Steve Jobs

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

W. Clement Stone

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Brian Tracy

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting but I cannot suffering as I am do without something which is greater than I am which is my life the power to create.

Vincent Van Gogh

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Abraham Lincoln

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity and here has its greatest effect on life an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.

When thou art above measure angry bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Marcus Aurelius

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

William James

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home goes to an all-white school and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Eminem

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Henry Miller

How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive it isn't.

Richard Bach

To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If the whole universe has no meaning we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

C. S. Lewis

Life is like an ice-cream cone you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

Gertrude Stein

Do not kick against the pricks of life.

Sai Baba

God alone is the giver of life the guardian of life and the goal of life.

Sai Baba

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

Charles M. Schulz

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

I owe much to my friends, but all things considered it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Andre Gide

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds or is likely to exceed that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

George Bernard Shaw

Plunge boldly into the thick of life and seize it where you will it is always interesting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I work very hard but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you I should say - I think it's important to be giving to return the love back.

Lady Gaga

We should not moor a ship with one anchor or our life with one hope.

Epictetus

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

John F. Kennedy

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

J. K. Rowling

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Lord Byron

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history I think to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Richard M. Nixon

If we can stand up to Hitler all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad sunlit uplands.

Winston Churchill

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Ray Bradbury

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

John Stuart Mill

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life in their day-to-day commercialism.

Lady Gaga

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees books, in the running brooks sermons, in stones and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending, because the older you get the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day, the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Drew Barrymore

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song, But the man worth while is the one who will smile, when everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Albert Schweitzer

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli

Fun is like life insurance, the older you get the more it costs.

Kin Hubbard

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Hedy Lamarr

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine.

Ayn Rand

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Denis Waitley

Life doesn't require that we be the best only that we try our best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Character in the long run is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

A lot has transpired in my life.

Tiger Woods

Life is a gamble at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

So if you stay ready you ain't gotta get ready and that is how I run my life.

Will Smith

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Eminem

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov

O Rose thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy

William Blake

I am in love - and my God it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already you are wasting your life.

David Herbert Lawrence

Happiness is the only sanction of life, where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.

I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.

Mitt Romney

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Stephen Covey

His whole life is an epigram smart smooth and neatly penned Plaited quite neat to catch applause with a hang noose at the end

William Blake

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

Winston Churchill

All my life I've been taught how to die but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Billy Graham

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

Christina Aguilera

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it that's OK too. It's whatever suits you.

Clint Eastwood

Love is anterior to life posterior to death initial of creation and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

Taylor Swift

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In real life I assure you there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz

Original Experience has not been interpreted for you and so you Joseph Campbell

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life and you'll find that you have more of it.

Ralph Marston

When his life was ruined his family killed his farm destroyed Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered "There's just something about you that pisses me off."

Stephen King

Life's pretty good and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate after all.

Johnny Depp

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Cesare Pavese

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

Earl Nightingale

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

George Eliot

Without discipline there's no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are Truth Righteousness Peace Love and Non violence.

Sai Baba

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Victor Hugo

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women, and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror and you keep making faces all your life.

Bette Davis

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

Every video I'm in every magazine cover they stretch you, they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Lady Gaga

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Life is thickly sown with thorns and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools, they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

William Blake

Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned.

Buddha

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Bette Davis

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Johnny Depp

Here is bread which strengthens man's heart and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Matthew Henry

Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sorrow is knowledge those that know the most must mourn the deepest the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Lord Byron

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result and therefore probably the purpose of forcing the patient out of real life of alienating him from actuality.

Sigmund Freud

Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime, for one swallow does not a summer make.

Aristotle

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

Short as life is we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Victor Hugo

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money, and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Angelina Jolie

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

Henry David Thoreau

Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

James Matthew Barrie

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Jimi Hendrix

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.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Sophocles

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Victor Hugo

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

In life unlike chess the game continues after checkmate

Isaac Asimov

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life devoid of breadth.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Robert Frost

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire not a meaning.

Charlie Chaplin

Be true to the game because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game and in some ways that's about life too.

Michael Jordan

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Michelle Obama

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Bob Dylan

God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity a boat. In this ocean of life take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.

Sai Baba

I hate failure, and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Lucille Ball

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life I assure you there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz

Whether for life or death do your own work well.

John Ruskin

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

Johnny Depp

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Simone Weil

The method of political science is the interpretation of life, its instrument is insight a nice understanding of subtle unformulated conditions.

Woodrow Wilson

He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

Victor Hugo

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected unplanned by me.

Carl Sandburg

Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Franz Kafka

Dreams do come true if we only wish hard enough You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James Matthew Barrie

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation) sleep eating and swilling buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

Lord Byron

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Samuel Butler

Choose the life that is most useful and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Francis Bacon

Life is constantly providing us with new funds new resources even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

Marcus Aurelius

Success in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly

Isaac Asimov

As for an authentic villain the real thing the absolute the artist one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead you are made for life.

Jimi Hendrix

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

John Barrymore

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Simone de Beauvoir

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

Stephen Hawking

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and you will succeed.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is a culmination of the past an awareness of the present an indication of a future beyond knowledge the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

I believe firmly in God's control in life.

Charles R. Swindoll

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Dale Carnegie

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Understand that society is the source of whatever pleasure one derives and whatever wealth one achieves in life.

Sai Baba

You must not be a bit of blotting paper absorbing all the passions and emotions all the joys and grief that the actress of Nature demonstrates of the stages of life.

Sai Baba

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

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

I know that I'm here today and I'm alive today and I've been blessed to have this life and this sport and I want to win the 2004 Tour de France.

Lance Armstrong

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

Christina Aguilera

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will I salute the young state and wish it well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

Our intonations contain our philosophy of life what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.

Marcel Proust

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Pablo Picasso

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Og Mandino

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Tony Robbins

If you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track which has been there all the while waiting for you and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living

Joseph Campbell

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty nasty unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Tupac Shakur

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Johnny Depp

By seeing London I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Samuel Johnson

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Simone Weil

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week I'll do something. If not I won't do a damn thing.

Warren Buffett

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Bob Dylan

When life is too easy for us we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone rich or poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I can do everything with ease on the stage whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Ingrid Bergman

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

Denis Waitley

I'm having fun because I don't take it (life) seriously - the only things I care about are my family friends work and my lady Sally. Philosophers for a long time have said 'why are we here?' - I'm here for the entertainment. If you're born in the world you're given a ticket to the freak show, if you're born in America you get a front row seat.

George Carlin

Develop interest in life as you see it, in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Judy Garland

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families, for our joy, our support in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

Mitt Romney

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well good as new.

John Steinbeck

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life -- and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Lord Byron

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My life is my argument.

Albert Schweitzer

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life and urge doing. I am content with knowing if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Brian Tracy

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover the only one.

Emile M. Cioran

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say 'I used everything you gave me'.

Erma Bombeck

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you are given a chance to be a role model I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

Tiger Woods

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Andre Gide

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Brian Tracy

The main facts in human life are five: birth food sleep love and death.

E. M. Forster

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

Helen Hayes

Love all and serve all. Your entire life will be sanctified thereby.

Sai Baba

I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

A lot of us grow up, and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Stephen King

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

Jim Morrison

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

Lou Holtz

Life in general has never been even close to fair so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Thomas Sowell

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this he's dead.

Bette Davis

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life struggle intensity.

Emile Zola

Caught up in life you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist in my opinion is a monstrosity something outside of nature.

Gustave Flaubert

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

Richard Bach

He had read much if one considers his long life, but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Isaac Asimov

I've been writing my entire life and I'll always write.

J. K. Rowling

School is not preparation for life but school is life

John Dewey

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Walt Disney

Oh while I live to be the ruler of life not a slave to meet life as a powerful conqueror and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Walt Whitman

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Zig Ziglar

Advertising is the life of trade.

Calvin Coolidge

My theory is to enjoy life but the practice is against it.

Charles Lamb

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands

George Carlin

As life runs on the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people to travel and expand my financial capabilities to get ideas and learn about life to create a world apart from basketball.

Michael Jordan

The bottom line is when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities not only are they many times more productive they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Stephen Covey

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Tupac Shakur

To be sensual I think is to respect and rejoice in the force of life of life itself and to be present in all that one does from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

James Arthur Baldwin

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

Bob Marley

Human brutes like other beasts find snares and poison in the provision of life and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Jonathan Swift

Property is intended to serve life and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Michael Jackson

Before success comes in any man's life he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

Napoleon Hill

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.

Alice Walker

No one is in control of your happiness but you, therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara de Angelis

The American grips himself at the very sources of his consciousness in a grip of care: and then to so much of the rest of life is indifferent. Whereas the European hasn't got so much care in him so he cares much more for life and living.

David Herbert Lawrence

The world 's a bubble and the life of man less than a span.

Francis Bacon

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People say that what their seeking is a meaning for life.... I think that what we are seeking is an experience of being alive so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Don't be a spectator don't let life pass you by.

Lou Holtz

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another ever really.

Marilyn Monroe

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later it always come around to where you started again.

Stephen King

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

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Tennessee Williams

The average man does not know what to do with this life yet wants another one which will last forever.

Your thoughts play a vital role in shaping your life.

Sai Baba

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Tony Robbins

Sex and beauty are inseparable like life and consciousness. And the intelligence, which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

David Herbert Lawrence

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Henry Miller

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death one dies one's life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

No man enjoys the true taste of life but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Marcus Garvey

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Bertrand Russell

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

Sleep that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

William Blake

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves, we must die to one life before we can enter another.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Carl Sandburg

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little, we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own and cherishes it, not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense, and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Andrew Jackson

When sperm and egg unite something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

Mitt Romney

You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.

Pope John Paul II

Bring something into your daily practice as evidence of your having known the secret of higher life from Me.

Sai Baba

In life we shall find many men that are great and some that are good but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Art is only a means to life to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way something which is overlooked not only by the public but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Henry Miller

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Marcus Aurelius

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

E. M. Forster

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Kurt Cobain

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

Michelle Obama

You spend a much larger part of your life being old not young.

Doug Coupland

The very problem of mind and body suggests division, I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion morals and science, the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education in religion in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

John Dewey

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Samuel Butler

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with not through the eye.

William Blake

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Aldous Huxley

If I think more about death than some other people it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

To better understand why you need a personal computer let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

Dave Barry

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Denis Waitley
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