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Life Quotes


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night is also a sun " be gone, or you will learn: a wise man is also a fool."


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


"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989."
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"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."


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


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


"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."


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


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


"And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway."


"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."


"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."


"If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon."


"There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say."


"Without literature my life would be miserable."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life."
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