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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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The less routine the more life.
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
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Life loves the liver of it.
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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
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Your life is what your thoughts make it.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, Come on in, the living's find, and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.
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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]
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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]
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All that man has will he give for his life.
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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.
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There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
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I think we're here for each other.
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Real life seems to have no plots.
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Life's but a day at most.
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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
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When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.
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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.
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