| Love is energy of life. -- Robert Browning |
| Author:
Browning, RobertEra:
1812 |
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| When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. -- Sara Teasdale |
| Author:
Teasdale, SaraEra:
1884 |
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| Business is the salt of life. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D. |
| Author:
Fuller, ThomasEra:
1654 |
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| Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. -- William Temple |
| Author:
Temple, WilliamEra:
1628 |
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| The goal of all life is death. -- Sigmund Freud |
| Author:
Freud, SigmundEra:
1856 |
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| I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. -- Adlai E. Stevenson |
| Author:
Stevenson, AdlaiEra:
1900 |
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| I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. -- Martial |
| Author:
MartialEra:
43 |
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| All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance. -- Owen Feltham |
| Author:
Feltham, OwenEra:
1602 |
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| Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| The Soul is made of consciousness and mind; it is made of life and vision. It is made of the earth and the waters; it is made of air and space. It is made of light and darkness; it is made of desire and peace. It is made of anger and love; it is made of virtue and vice. It is made of all that is near; it is made of all that is afar. It is made of all. -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| This is the truth: As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable...Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes. -- Lu Yen |
| Author:
Yen, LuEra:
800 |
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| life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! -- Robert Browning |
| Author:
Browning, RobertEra:
1812 |
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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 |
| Author:
Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. -- Lucan |
| Author:
LucanEra:
39 |
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| The greatest pleasure of life is love. -- William Temple |
| Author:
Temple, WilliamEra:
1628 |
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| To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts. -- Frank Tyger |
| Author:
Tyger, FrankEra:
1950 |
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| We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. -- Franz Kafka |
| Author:
Kafka, FranzEra:
1883 |
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| The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. -- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan |
| Author:
Khan, Pir Vilayat InayatEra:
1916 |
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| Every step of life shows much caution is required. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world. -- The Talmud |
| Author:
Talmud, TheEra:
-500 |
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| Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. -- Horace |
| Author:
HoraceEra:
-65 |
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| When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. -- George Gordon |
| Author:
Gordon, GeorgeEra:
1833 |
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| The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede. -- Charles Swain |
| Author:
Swain, CharlesEra:
1803 |
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| Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. -- Cleveland Amory |
| Author:
Amory, ClevelandEra:
1907 |
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| life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
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| No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. -- Washington Irving |
| Author:
Irving, WashingtonEra:
1783 |
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| There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. -- Frederick Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, FrederickEra:
1807 |
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| Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. -- Will Rogers |
| Author:
Rogers, WillEra:
1879 |
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| Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Pythagoras |
| Author:
PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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| Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus. -- William Blake |
| Author:
Blake, WilliamEra:
1757 |
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| Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness. -- Hung Tzu-ch'eng |
| Author:
Tzu-ch'eng, HungEra:
1593 |
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| To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| One must act in painting as in life, directly. -- Pablo Picasso |
| Author:
Picasso, PabloEra:
1881 |
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| Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. -- Anatole France |
| Author:
France, AnatoleEra:
1844 |
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| Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. -- Jean La Bruyere |
| Author:
La Bruyere, JeanEra:
1645 |
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| We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| ...The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life there into, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities. -- Book of Dzyan |
| Author:
Book of DzyanEra:
-3000 |
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| The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Pythagoras |
| Author:
PythagorasEra:
-582 |
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| Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! -- Julia Ripley Dorr |
| Author:
Dorr, Julia RipleyEra:
1825 |
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| Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. -- E. B. White |
| Author:
White, E. B.Era:
1899 |
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| life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them. -- Philip Rieff |
| Author:
Rieff, PhilipEra:
1922 |
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| I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT's All A Miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein |
| Author:
Rubinstein, ArthurEra:
1887 |
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| The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates |
| Author:
SocratesEra:
-469 |
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| life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| Author:
Robinson, Edwin A.Era:
1869 |
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| The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows. -- Farrar |
| Author:
FarrarEra:
1831 |
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| The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. -- Alfred A. Montapert |
| Author:
Montapert, Alfred A.Era:
1910 |
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| A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.-- Henry David Thoreau |
| Author:
Thoreau, Henry DavidEra:
1817 |
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| The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. -- Seneca |
| Author:
SenecaEra:
-4 |
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| A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. -- John Milton |
| Author:
Milton, JohnEra:
1608 |
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| My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light! -- Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Author:
Millay, Edna Saint VincentEra:
1892 |
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| This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Author:
Longfellow, Henry WadsworthEra:
1807 |
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| life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. -- Thomas Carlyle |
| Author:
Carlyle, ThomasEra:
1795 |
| |
| A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - "Just as good as the real." -- Charles Dudley Warner |
| Author:
Warner, Charles D.Era:
1829 |
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| life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. -- Samuel Butler |
| Author:
Butler, SamuelEra:
1612 |
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| There was neither non-existence nor existence then; there was neither the realm of space nor the sky beyond. There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day. That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse. Other than that there was nothing beyond. Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning; with no distinguishing sign, all this was water. The life force that was, was covered with emptiness, that one arose through the power of heat. Desire came upon that one in the beginning; that was the first seed of mind. -- Rig Veda |
| Author:
Veda, RigEra:
-1200 |
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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. -- Saskya Pandita |
| Author:
Pandita, SaskyaEra:
1182 |
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| Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. -- Jawaharial Nehru |
| Author:
Nehru, JawaharialEra:
1889 |
| |
| life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. -- Jean Anouilh |
| Author:
Anouilh, JeanEra:
1910 |
| |
| life's more amusing than we thought. -- Andrew Lang |
| Author:
Lang, AndrewEra:
1844 |
| |
| The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality. -- Albert Schweitzer |
| Author:
Schweitzer, AlbertEra:
1875 |
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| Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. -- Sivananda |
| Author:
SivanandaEra:
1887 |
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| One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. -- Alfred North Whitehead |
| Author:
Whitehead, Alfred NorthEra:
1861 |
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| Sincerity is no test of truth - no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life? -- Tryon Edwards |
| Author:
Edwards, TryonEra:
1809 |
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| The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -- Winston Churchill |
| Author:
Churchill, WinstonEra:
1874 |
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| The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. -- Philip Massinger |
| Author:
Massinger, PhilipEra:
1583 |
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| He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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| The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called life...Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author:
Divine Pymander, TheEra:
-2500 |
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| Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all. -- Walter Raleigh |
| Author:
Raleigh, WalterEra:
1552 |
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| My trade and art is to live. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. -- Rabelais |
| Author:
RabelaisEra:
1490 |
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| The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. -- Sara Teasdale |
| Author:
Teasdale, SaraEra:
1884 |
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| The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. -- William Faulkner |
| Author:
Faulkner, WilliamEra:
1897 |
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| The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain. -- Philip Sidney |
| Author:
Sidney, PhilipEra:
1554 |
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| life is but thought. -- Samuel T. Coleridge |
| Author:
Coleridge, Samuel T.Era:
1772 |
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| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. -- Charles Caleb Colton |
| Author:
Colton, Charles C.Era:
1780 |
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| life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Author:
Shelley, Percy ByssheEra:
1792 |
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| life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. -- Wilson Mizner |
| Author:
Mizner, WilsonEra:
1876 |
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| Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Broun |
| Author:
Broun, HeywoodEra:
1888 |
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| Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream. -- Francis Palgrave |
| Author:
Palgrave, FrancisEra:
1824 |
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| life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. -- Paracelsus |
| Author:
ParacelsusEra:
1493 |
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| Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
| |
| So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. -- Edgar Watson Howe |
| Author:
Howe, Edgar WatsonEra:
1853 |
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| The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator. -- Aldous Huxley |
| Author:
Huxley, AldousEra:
1894 |
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| The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. -- Horace Greeley |
| Author:
Greeley, HoraceEra:
1811 |
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| Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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| I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author:
Bailey, GamalielEra:
1816 |
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| A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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| life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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