Life Quotes - Page 34

• If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Wind, Focus

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• You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Remembrance, Feelings

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Travel, Beloved

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Courage, Bullying, Reality

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• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Country, Military

  News conference, 21 Mar. 1962

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• Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Seize The Day, Helping

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• The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happiness, Moments, Disappointment Love

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• Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Business, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Donald J. Trump from Jun 07, 2016

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• What your soul needs is a check up.

  Henry R Brandt

  Soul, Needs, Checks

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Confidence, Believe, Creativity

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, Reading

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Change, Happiness, Death

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• Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

  Shakti Gawain

  Encouragement, Learning, Giving

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.334, Mango Media Inc.

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• Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

  Michael Josephson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Life is so unlike theory.

  Anthony Trollope

  Funny, Literature, Theory

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• Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Eye

  Song: Strawberry Fields Forever

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• The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

  Kedar Joshi

  Science, Vanity, Ultimate

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• Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

  Jim Rohn

  Happiness, Education, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 25, 2015

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• Don't take life too seriously.

  RuPaul

  Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Country, Mass Destruction, Usa

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• Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Crazy, Bad Ass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

  Thomas Huxley

  Business, Knowledge, Acting

  "Technical Education" (1877)

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• Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Art, Real

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

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