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"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
Jean Paul
"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
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"I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life."
Nicholas Lea
"I've spent so much time the last seven, eight years in Los Angeles, away from my family, away from my friends, away from the city that is my favourite place to be and I just want to come here and have a proper life."
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"Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all."
David Mitchell
"Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all."
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"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
George Sand
"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
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"Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you."
Sophia Bush
"Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you."
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"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."
Swami Vivekananda
"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."
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"There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time."
Jill Robinson
"There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time."
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"For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life."
Bjork
"For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life."
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"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."
Maxim Gorky
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery."
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"No water, no life. No blue, no green."
Sylvia Earle
"No water, no life. No blue, no green."
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"Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight."
Eoin Colfer
"Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight."
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"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."
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"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
Igor Stravinsky
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
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"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise."
Adolf Hitler
"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise."
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"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."
Christopher Morley
"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."
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"I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor."
Sonia Sotomayor
"I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor."
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"I've come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one's abode; for man is endowed with a mind which is changeable and and unsettled: nowhere at rest, it darts about and directs its thoughts to all places known and unknown, a wanderer which cannot endure repose and delights chiefly in novelty."
Seneca
"I've come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one's abode; for man is endowed with a mind which is changeable and and unsettled: nowhere at rest, it darts about and directs its thoughts to all places known and unknown, a wanderer which cannot endure repose and delights chiefly in novelty."
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"Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life."
Billie Jean King
"Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life."
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"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
Walt Disney
"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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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
Warren Buffett
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
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"If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live."
Shannon L. Alder
"If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live."
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"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
Warren Buffett
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
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"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
Aristotle
"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
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"I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life."
Jhonen Vasquez
"I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life."
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"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins."
Frank Dane
"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins."
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"India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West."
Gary Wright
"India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West."
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"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
Rumi
"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love."
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"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free."
Angelina Jolie
"I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free."
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"Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial."
Barbara Amiel
"Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial."
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"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
Coco Chanel
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
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"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood."
Edwin Markham
"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood."
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"Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses."
Henry Miller
"Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses."
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"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
Kahlil Gibran
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
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"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on."
Hanoi Hannah
"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on."
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"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."
Bede Griffiths
"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything."
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"Never again will your footsteps b repeated upon this earth. your life is the life that can make a difference."
Sravani Saha Nakhro
"Never again will your footsteps b repeated upon this earth. your life is the life that can make a difference."
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"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
John Patrick
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
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"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored."
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"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
Audrey Hepburn
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
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"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
Charlie Sheen
"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
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"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
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"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
Benjamin E. Mays
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
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"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."
Soichiro Honda
"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."
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"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."
Dustin Hoffman
"Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it."
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"But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore."
Evel Knievel
"But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore."
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"The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life."
Georg Simmel
"The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life."
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"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
William Goldman
"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
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"Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life itself."
Osho
"Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life itself."
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"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
Sigmund Freud
"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
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"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."
Francis Quarles
"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."
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