Things In Life Quotes - Page 9

• The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Giving Up, Fighting, Inspirational Running

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  I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

  Robin Williams

  Love, Life, Lonely

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• We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

  Hank Green

  Life, Happy, Thinking

  YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"A Few Of My Favorite Things", www.youtube.com. April 01, 2009.

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• My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'

  Caroline Rhea

  Girl, Fathers Day, Kids

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• I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Kids

  "'I really miss him': Cristiano Ronaldo on Sir Alex Ferguson". CNN interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 16, 2012.

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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

  Dorothy Day

  Inspirational, Life, Christian

  "TIME" Magazine, December 29, 1975.

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• The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dream, Eye, Color

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Queens, Gay, Choices

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• The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational Life, Love Life, Love Is

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• The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

  Edward Steichen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

  Kiana Tom

  Men, Doctors, People

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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• Let's set the record straight. Money is important! To say that it's not as important as any other things in life is ludicrous. What's more important, your arm or your leg? Could it be that both are important?

  T. Harv Eker

  Life, Secret, Important

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• Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Drama, Taken, Roots

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• The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Men, Atheism

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications

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• The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

  George Hewitt Myers

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• Very few things in life matter.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Matter, Christianity

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• If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

  Deepak Chopra

  Brother, Team, Sibling

  "Chopra Brothers: Separate Paths But Common Bond". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 29, 2013.

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• I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn one thing in life, it's don't be afraid to take on something that you believe you're capable of achieving.

  Michael Jordan

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I thought, man, if you could run 100 miles, you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the f**king Buddha. Bringing peace and a smile to the world. In my case, it didn't work. I'm the same old punk ass as ever. But there's always this hope that it'll turn you into the person you want to be. You know, like a better, more peaceful person. And when I'm out on a long run, the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going 'bleh bleh bleh bleh.' Everything just quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow

  Jenn Shelton

  Running, Kings, Men

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• Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

  Woody Allen

  Powerful, Luck, Important

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• There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Health, Sacrifice, Two

  The Caxtons Pt XI, Ch. VII

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• Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table.

  Curtis Stone

  Love, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Court Judges, Judging

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