Facts Of Life Quotes

• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

  Aleister Crowley

  Life, Reality, Paganism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

  Abebe Bikila

  Men, Victory, Tragedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

  K.J. Parker

  Running, Matter, Facts

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• Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

  Jose Saramago

  Fascination, Facts, Morbid

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• Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

  Joanne Harris

  Change, Facts, Comfortable

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• The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

  Sophia Loren

  Children, War, Television

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• Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

  John Dewey

  Life, Confidence, Facts

  John Dewey (2015). “Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding”, p.70, 谷月社

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  Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Mistake, Facts, Willing

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• I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dead Poets Society, Transcendentalism, Wilderness

  "Walden: Or, Life in the Woods".

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• As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Hands, Facts, Has Beens

  "Occupational hazards" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2007.

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• I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

  Dodie Smith

  Thinking, Facts, Knows

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.65, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Adversity gives birth to greatness. The greater the challenges and difficulties we face, the greater the opportunity we have to grow and develop as people. A life without adversity, a life of ease and comfort, produces nothing and leaves us with nothing. This is one of the indisputable facts of life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Adversity, Opportunity, Greatness

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• There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Lying, Quality, Facts

  Alfred North Whitehead (2011). “Religion in the Making”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• The facts of life are very stubborn things.

  Cleveland Amory

  Stubborn, Facts

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• The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

  Charles Stanley

  Spiritual, Growth, Events

  Charles Stanley (1991). “How to Handle Adversity”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Practice, Wish, Transcendentalism

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3143, Delphi Classics

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• The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That's why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life. The blues call on God as much as a spiritual song do.

  Willie Dixon

  Song, Understanding, Feelings

  "I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story".

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• They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

  Harper Lee

  Ugly, Facts

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

  Cleveland Amory

  Acceptance, Stubborn, Facts

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• Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

  Jennifer James

  Change, Skills, Twenties

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sex, Europe, America

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.175, Bantam

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• I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

  P. D. James

  Skulls, Skins, Facts

  P.D. James (2012). “The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Perseverance, Progress, Want

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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