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Life Quotes


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


"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."


"Yeah, I think there are many other important things in life, not just tennis."


"I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India."


"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."


"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me."


"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989."
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"For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment."


"I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit."


"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."


"Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you."


"Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country."


"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."


"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."


"If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him."


"The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life."


"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist."


"Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another."
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"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."


"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American."


"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation."


"Without literature my life would be miserable."


"When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters."


"While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty."


"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."
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