Life Quotes - Page 38

• Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Writing

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Never lose a holy curiosity.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, God

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.25, St. Martin's Press

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• They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

  Dr. Seuss

  Past, Thinking, Time Flies

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• To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Wells, Ifs, Live Life

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind or rain. To stay healthy and strong, life must have clean air, clear water and pure food. If deprived of these things, life will cycle to the next level, or as the system says, 'die'.

  John Africa

  Inspirational, Weed, Dog

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

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• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spiritual, War, Tragedy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.131, Vintage

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• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Sleep

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148

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• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Birthday, Thinking Of You

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, History, Embryos

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4087, Delphi Classics

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• The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

  Peter Shaffer

  People, Inspire, Trouble

  Peter Shaffer (1982). “The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer”, Random House Value Pub

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• It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

  William Barrett

  Inspirational, Elude Us, Vision

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• There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More”, p.106, Read Books Ltd

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• But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Repetition, Dies

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.186, Xist Publishing

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• People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

  Kevin Smith

  Trust, Failure, Writing

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• Life is a dead-end street.

  H. L. Mencken

  Dead Ends, Streets, Life Is

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• Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Kindness, Generosity, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.403, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

  Simone Weil

  Perfect, Parables, Life Is Short

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Halos, Lamps, Envelopes

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Fear

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happiness, Inspiring, Luxury

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 07, 2014

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• Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

  Douglas Adams

  Tired, Thinking, Chance

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is mostly froth and bubble

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Kindness, Bubbles, Life Is

  'Ye Wearie Wayfarer' 'Fytte 8'

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• Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, God, Science

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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