Life Is Quotes - Page 23

• The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

  Joel Salatin

  Animal, Cycle Of Life, Want

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• All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Life, Doe, Able

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• It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Evil, Would Be

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• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Fighting, Order

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, May 30, 1877.

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• There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Family, Moving, Track

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• Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

  Francoise Sagan

  Aversion, Littles, Rage

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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• Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

  Jackie Gleason

  Joy, Feelings, Life Is Great

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• Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Humor, Perspective

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• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

  Joseph Joubert

  Education, Children, Parent

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• The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Circumstances, Shows, Right Now

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.31, Penguin

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• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Lisa Alther

  Men, Air, Slave

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• I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

  Meher Baba

  Honest, Sincerity, Sincere

  Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

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• Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

  Pema Chodron

  Life Is Like, Standards, Knows

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

  Anthony Burgess

  Opposites, Moral, Entity

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

  Robert Henri

  Finding Yourself, Development, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Real achievement -- the true measure of how far we have advanced in life -- is not determined by what we have acquired, but rather by the degree to which we have put our fears behind us.

  Guy Finley

  Real, Achievement, Degrees

  Guy Finley (2007). “365 Days to Let Go: Daily Insights to Change Your Life”, BookBaby

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• Life is worth being lived, but not being discussed all the time.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Communication

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• On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Responsibility, Pioneers, Sides

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• The principal fact of life is the free mind.

  Joyce Cary

  Freedom, Mind, Facts

  Joyce Cary (1976). “Selected Essays”

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• What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

  Philip Sidney

  Secret, Secrecy, Mines

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.195

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• Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Good Life, Pleasant

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Memories, Real, Important Events

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• Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Nice, People, Guy

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov...A few months ago he wrote in the French publication, L Vie Ouvriere...that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the existing order in the great Democracies.

  Denis Fahey

  War, Order, Democracy

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