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Life Quotes


"What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it."


"I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it."


"To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to always be in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again."


"Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive."


"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."


"Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people."


"If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all."


"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."


"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."


"You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life."


"Give life a purpose to pursue."


"O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight--to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret--as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her. . . . Pass the bottle."


"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."


"It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do."



"Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state."


"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."


"To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children."



"As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence."
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"Saints are sinners who kept on going."


"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."


"Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment."


"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."



"The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour."
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