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Life Quotes


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."


"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989."
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"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."


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


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


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


"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."


"Without literature my life would be miserable."


"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."


"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
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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."


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


"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."


"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."


"Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life itself."
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