Life Quotes - Page 9

• Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wise, Sometimes, Gamble

  Jerome K. Jerome, Martin Green (2008). “The Other Jerome K. Jerome”, History PressLtd

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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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• We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

  Jodi Picoult

  Challenges, Now And Then, Mess

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Courage, Fear, Giving

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• In the midst of life, we are in death.

  Agatha Christie

  Midst

  Agatha Christie (1986). “And then there were none”, Pocket

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Success, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, Sublime, Forgiving

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Art, Business

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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• It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Men, Realizing

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Fall, Writing

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Regret

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• A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

  Epicurus

  Easy, Possession, Epicureanism

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  Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Positivity, Clouds, Light

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.602, Harvard University Press

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• Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Death, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

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• Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of
  building better lives.

  Nelson Mandela

  Education, Children, Priorities

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Cute Love

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

  Haruki Murakami

  Destiny, Water, Flow

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 27, 2016

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• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Running, Heart

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Trust, Beautiful

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• The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

  John Barrymore

  Beautiful, Littles, Trouble

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Writing is a struggle against silence.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Beautiful, Struggle, Communication

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• Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.

  Danny Orton

  Ends, Novel, Ripped

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• Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

  Albert Camus

  Stupid, Mean, Mouths

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