Things In Life Quotes - Page 18

• I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

  Taylor Swift

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Love Is, Favorites Things

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• If you want the best things in life you have to earn them for yourself.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Want, Best Things, Ifs

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

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• If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Fall, I've Learned, One Thing

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

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• As a person, I am still very middle class. People don’t realise these things. Most of the black suits that I wear are the same. All the designer clothes I have are actually from my films. I don’t dream of Rolls Royce and things like that… People are kind enough to me to give me the nicest things in life, but it doesn’t mean that I’m used to them.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Dream, Mean, Class

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• I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

  Doyle Brunson

  Important, Relate, Important Things

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story". Interview with Nolan Dalla, www.pokerschoolonline.com.

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• What I believe...about more sleep than is needful concerns the individual who goes far beyond the need, developing slothful and lazy habits, which deaden the senses and become a retarder of accomplishment. To overcome these things in life requires discipline and restraint.

  Alvin R. Dyer

  Believe, Sleep, Discipline

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• The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

  Socrates

  Life, Important, Principles

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• Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

  Democritus

  Men, Intelligent, Order

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 155), 1948.

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• Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Practice, Differences

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• The biggest things in life are not materials.

  Carlos Slim

  Materials

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• I can only tell you one thing that I do know for sure, I am a dreamer. There are not many people that will recognize or want to recognize the fact that they are dreamers in their own life ... I continue to get up in the morning,enthusiastically, and go pick up a golf club with a thought that I can somewhere find that secret to making the cut. That's just an example, but it applies to other things in life, too, and that's the way I live and the way I think and the way I feel.

  Arnold Palmer

  Morning, Cutting, Golf

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• There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

  St. Jerome

  Life Is Short, Bigger, Wells

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• I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Dream, Simple

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• I appreciate the little things in life because it adds up to everything.

  Lisa M

  Appreciate, Add, Littles

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• You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

  Sara McMann

  Doors, Order, Mma

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• There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Pain, Disappointment, Women

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• It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

  Goldie

  Laughter, Children, Color

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• La chose la plus importante a'   toute la vie est le choix du me  tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

  Blaise Pascal

  Important, Chance, Life Is

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• Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Pride, Pieces, Virtue

  Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.178, Broadview Press

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• More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

  Robert Menzies

  Indifference, Good Things, Lost

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• The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Best Things In Life, Best Things

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 114, 1992.

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• I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

  Peter Greenaway

  Two, Together, Delight

  "Fictional character: Nagiko". "The Pillow Book", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Interesting, Attention

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.140, Spectra

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• Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

  Jose Saramago

  Dresses, Naked, Body

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 92), 2003.

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