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"Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it."
Walter Kaufmann
"Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it."
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"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
Elon Musk
"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
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"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself."
Thales
"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself."
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"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
William Wordsworth
"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
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"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
"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."
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"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."
Greg Anderson
"Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to."
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"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary."
Mario Vargas Llosa
"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary."
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"The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles."
Charles Munch
"The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles."
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"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself."
Tennessee Williams
"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself."
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"I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives."
Michael Irvin
"I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives."
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"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
Carl Jung
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
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"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."
Flannery O'Connor
"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."
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"When one is at the edge and falls then it's a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that's what's life is about."
Amit Abraham
"When one is at the edge and falls then it's a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that's what's life is about."
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"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause."
Omar Bongo
"The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause."
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"If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is."
Sandra Day O'Connor
"If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is."
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"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
Sophia Loren
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
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"Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond."
Hypatia
"Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond."
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"I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it."
Camille Claudel
"I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it."
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"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
Vaclav Havel
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
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"It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life."
Franz Boas
"It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life."
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"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."
Karl Radek
"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."
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"We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation."
Raul Julia
"We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation."
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"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethelessAnd filter and fibre your blood."
Walt Whitman
"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethelessAnd filter and fibre your blood."
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"The Lord did not design the church to cater to people's needs-the Lord breathed life into the church to proclaim His truths."
Billy Graham
"The Lord did not design the church to cater to people's needs-the Lord breathed life into the church to proclaim His truths."
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"There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet."
Mitchell Baker
"There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet."
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"The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in."
Jason Alexander
"The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in."
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"My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other."
Stephen Sondheim
"My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other."
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"When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort."
Kevyn Aucoin
"When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort."
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"Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride."
Gary Allan
"Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride."
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"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
William Graham Sumner
"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
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"The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring."
Frederik Pohl
"The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring."
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"I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
"I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life."
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"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
"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."
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"I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that."
O. J. Simpson
"I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that."
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"Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end."
Marcelene Cox
"Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end."
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"The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord."
Sai Baba
"The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord."
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"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
Mark Haddon
"Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves."
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"Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens."
Peter McWilliams
"Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens."
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"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural."
Sallust
"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural."
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"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
Seamus Heaney
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
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"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX."
Steve Wozniak
"All the best people in life seem to like LINUX."
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"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
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"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."
Lewis Mumford
"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."
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"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
Louisa May Alcott
"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
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"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
Shakira
"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
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"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
Miguel de Unamuno
"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
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"My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life."
Faye Dunaway
"My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life."
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"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
Mary Oliver
"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
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"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony."
Lou Reed
"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony."
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"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."
Rebecca H. Davis
"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."
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