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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lie is a condition of life.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Dreams are necessary to life.
– Anais Nin
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
– Anais Nin
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
– Anais Nin
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
– Anais Nin
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
– Rosa Parks
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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
– Pope Paul VI
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
– William Lyon Phelps
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
– Pablo Picasso
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I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
– Robert Plant
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
– Sylvia Plath
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
– Plato
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
– Plato
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
– Pythagoras
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
– Hugh Prather
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We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
– Max de Pree
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
– Ayn Rand
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I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
– Ronald Reagan
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
– Ronald Reagan
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I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.
– Joan Rivers
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I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
– Anthony Robbins
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In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
– Anthony Robbins
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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
– Anthony Robbins
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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
– Anthony Robbins
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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
– Anthony Robbins
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
– Jackie Robinson
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
– Carl R. Rogers
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The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
– Jim Rohn
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no wealth but life.
– John Ruskin
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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
– Gilda Radner
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The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
– Ginger Rogers
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Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Life is but thought.
– Sara Teasdale
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
– Henry David Thoreau
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
– Henry David Thoreau
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
– Henry David Thoreau
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
– Henry David Thoreau
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
– Henry David Thoreau
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
– Henry David Thoreau
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
– Leo Tolstoy
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
– Leo Tolstoy
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There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that life is just one damned thing after another. human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
– Arnold J. Toynbee
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
– Leon Trotsky
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Everything in life is luck.
– Donald Trump
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
– Mark Twain
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
– Mark Twain
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Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
– Shania Twain
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Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
– Paul Tournier
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
– Gore Vidal
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Life well spent is long.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
– Voltaire
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
– Voltaire
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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
– Denis Waitley
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
– Denis Waitley
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
– William Arthur Ward
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
– Bill Watterson
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Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
– John Wayne
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
– Simone Weil
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
– Oscar Wilde
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
– Oscar Wilde
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
– Oscar Wilde
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In married life three is company and two none.
– Oscar Wilde
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
– Oscar Wilde
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
– Oscar Wilde
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
– Oscar Wilde
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
– Oscar Wilde
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
– Oscar Wilde
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
– Tennessee Williams
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
– Tennessee Williams
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
– Tennessee Williams
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
– Oprah Winfrey
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
– Oprah Winfrey
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
– Oprah Winfrey
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
– Oprah Winfrey
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
– William Wordsworth
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
– William Wallace
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Life is never easy for those who dream.
– Robert James Waller
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
– Zig Ziglar
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
– Zig Ziglar
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
– William James
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
– William James
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