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"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
Mignon McLaughlin
"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
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"Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury."
Roger Bannister
"Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury."
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"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."
Sallust
"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."
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"My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life."
Christopher Walken
"My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life."
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"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."
Denis Waitley
"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."
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"Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free."
Ken Salazar
"Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free."
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"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."
Truman Capote
"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."
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"Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere."
Karel Capek
"Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere."
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"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders."
Ben Stein
"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders."
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"Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up."
Kenneth Rexroth
"Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up."
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"I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general."
Sandra Bullock
"I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general."
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"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
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"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
James Earl Jones
"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter."
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"I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life."
Harvey Fierstein
"I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life."
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"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
S. I. Hayakawa
"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
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"We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk " that anyone not walking it with us is being misled."
A.J. Darkholme
"We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk " that anyone not walking it with us is being misled."
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"I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids."
Bo Jackson
"I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids."
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"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
Wislawa Szymborska
"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
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"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."
George Gillespie
"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."
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"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
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"Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life."
Judd Nelson
"Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life."
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"We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life."
Albert Finney
"We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life."
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"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life."
Natalie Portman
"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life."
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"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."
Charles Lindbergh
"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."
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"If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short."
Jerry Doyle
"If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short."
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"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping ."
Dale Carnegie
"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping ."
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"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
Mary Antin
"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
Helen Keller
"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
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"It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life."
Felix Bloch
"It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life."
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"When I was a kid my mom would send me off to school each day with the words, 'Remember: be happy! The most important thing today is that you are happy!"
Alaric Hutchinson
"When I was a kid my mom would send me off to school each day with the words, 'Remember: be happy! The most important thing today is that you are happy!"
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
Jean Cocteau
"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."
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"I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again."
Aileen Wuornos
"I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again."
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"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life."
Issey Miyake
"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life."
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"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."
Samuel Butler
"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."
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"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being."
James Earl Jones
"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being."
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"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
Anais Nin
"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
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"Music is essentially useless, as is life."
George Santayana
"Music is essentially useless, as is life."
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"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
David Attenborough
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
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"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
John D. Rockefeller
"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
Aristotle
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
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"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
Edgar Watson Howe
"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
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"Humans don't make sense."If you're only now learning that, Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention."
Brandon Sanderson
"Humans don't make sense."If you're only now learning that, Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention."
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"But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it."
Jonathan Safran Foer
"But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it."
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"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things."
John Irving
"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things."
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"No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance."
Hortense Odlum
"No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance."
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"Age may catch up with you, just never let it over take you."
Benny Bellamacina
"Age may catch up with you, just never let it over take you."
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"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
Elon Musk
"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
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"I bring to my life a certain amount of mess."
Kitty O'Neill Collins
"I bring to my life a certain amount of mess."
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"Then of thy beauty do I question make,That thou among the wastes of time must go,Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,And die as fast as they see others grow."
William Shakespeare
"Then of thy beauty do I question make,That thou among the wastes of time must go,Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,And die as fast as they see others grow."
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"That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life."
Euripides
"That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life."
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