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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 best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Men, Joy

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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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• Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.

  William H. Gass

  Light, People, Darkness

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Red

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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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• It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.

  Alain de Botton

  Life, Dust, Space

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• I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Beautiful, Hate, Eye

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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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• Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Habit, Determine

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “What All the World's A-Seeking”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Past, Men, Should

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• Life is here to Enjoy!

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Enjoy

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• Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

  Robert Holden

  Art, Life Is Like, Interpretation

  Robert Holden (2006). “Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life”

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• If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.

  Thomas Nagel

  Real, Goal, Ridiculous

  Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• A man's life is his work; his work is his life.

  Jackson Pollock

  Men

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• 75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Fiction, Happens

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• On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

  Patsy Kensit

  Marriage, Breakup, Fantastic

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• Life is tough; thank God there's design.

  Paola Antonelli

  Design, Thank God, Tough

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• No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.

  Robin Sharma

  Car, House, Matter

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.134, Jaico Publishing House

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• Life is all about Living, Forgiving and Loving!.

  Deborah Roberts

  Forgiving

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• Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Integrity, Independence

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• If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Tricks, Live Well, Wells

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• Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Blessing, Problem, Burden

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• We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.

  Miguel Serrano

  Religious, Believe, Hero

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