Life Quotes - Page 33

• Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Gambling, Odds, Succeed

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead act 3 (1967)

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• Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Offensive, Mechanism

  Adventures of Ideas (1933) pt. 1, ch. 5

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Graduation, Business

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

  Harry Chapin

  Relationship, Helping Others, Compassion

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• It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

  Jesse Jackson

  Christian, Religious, Brother

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• All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Relationship, Philosophy, Mirrors

  "Relationships: To Oneself, To Others,To the World".

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• Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Answers

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 25, 2012

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• Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

  Guy Finley

  Education, School, Winning

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• All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

  Michael Crichton

  People, Ninety, Trueness

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

  Charles Dickens

  Saying Goodbye, Expectations, Together

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Great Expectations in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography”, p.568, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A useless life is an early death.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Meaningful

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

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• Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Pay, Attention, Instruction

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Sep 17, 2016

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Short Life, Live Your Life

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• Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

  Seneca the Younger

  Evil, Fields, Good And Evil

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• Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

  India.Arie

  Inspirational, Positive, Mistake

  Song: A Beautiful Day

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• I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

  Rumi

  Death, People, Taste

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• Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Tests, Dies

  Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”

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• We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

  Antonio Porchia

  Tears, Use

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

  Jim Rohn

  Wise, Philosophy, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 25, 2016

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• Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

  Corita Kent

  Love, Happiness, Inspiring

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• We are unusual and tragic and alive.

  Dave Eggers

  People, Alive, Being Human

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete me!" There is an intrinsic quality in every experience that it tends and wants to be finished, completed. Once completed, it evaporates; incomplete, it persists, it tortures you, it haunts you, it attracts your attention. It says, "What are you going to do about me? I am still incomplete - fulfill me!"

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

  Gloria Swanson

  Inspirational, Time, Reality

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• Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Positivity, Joy

  "Selected Letters". Edited by Thomas H. Johnson,

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