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Life Quotes



"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."



"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."


"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."



"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."


"All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap."


"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."


"Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life itself."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient."


"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."



"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."


"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."


"The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood."


"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."



"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."



"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."



"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you."


"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."


"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
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"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."


"Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated."



"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."


"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins."


"I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more."


"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."


"Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?"



"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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