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Life Quotes


"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."


"Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up."


"I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation."


"With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all."


"It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going."


"I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life."


"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."


"Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it."


"The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it."



"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked."


"I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing."



"I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat."


"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."


"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."


"With sense of achievement comes satisfaction, and with satisfaction comes contentment. Contentment is ultimate goal of life."


"That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it."


"For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor."


"Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either."


"I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running."


"What has made America great have been the opportunities given to everyone in this country. Since our founding, individuals and families have come to America to seek freedom, opportunity and the choice for a better life."


"If it's going to be two against one, make sure you aren't the one."


"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."


"If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America."
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