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Life Quotes


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



"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."



"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."



"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."



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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


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



"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."


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



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


"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."


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



"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."


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