Life Quotes - Page 36

• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Wall, Mirrors, Cells

  "Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill".

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Greatness, Bigger And Better Things

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• Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

  Stendhal

  Yawning, Waste, Too Short

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• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beautiful

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

  Mae West

  Sexy, Trying, Three

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• You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational Life, Lifetime

  "Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1989.

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• Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, World, Searchers

  "An introduction to prudence".

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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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• Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

  Julian Barnes

  Book, Thinking, People

  Flaubert's Parrot ch. 13 (1984)

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• Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Experience

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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

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• Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

  John Eudes

  God, Faith, Christian

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• There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

  Jean-Luc Nancy

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Would Be

  Jean-Luc Nancy (2000). “Being Singular Plural”, p.2, Stanford University Press

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• As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

  J. K. Rowling

  Positive, What Matters, Long

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• I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Ambition, People

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

  Robert H. Goddard

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Disappointment, Selfish

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Animal, Pet

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• Working gets in the way of living.

  Omar Sharif

  Hate, Work, Way

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• Art should be created for life, not for the museum

  Jean Nouvel

  Art, Museums, Creating

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• God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself.

  Miles J. Stanford

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

  Joseph Addison

  Friday, Sunday, Weekend

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1747). “The Spectator”, p.176

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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wisdom, Taken, Knowledge

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.262, Cambridge University Press

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• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Passion, Fighting

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