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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud

When people want to know about you and your life it invariably means that bad things have happened to you rather than good things.
Calamity Jane

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first
Ginger Rogers

I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here
Alan Pardew

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James Baldwin

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the obstacles one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T Washington

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it
Owen Feltham

A woman scorned is an old theme in country music. I think what's changed are the values from which the music reflects real life.
Steven Curtis Chapman

I suspect there are few positions in public life in which it is easier to keep faith with an oath of office than the one I now occupy.
James L Buckley

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilisation (English Social History)
G M Trevelyan

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that.
Shannen Doherty

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.
Giorgio De Chirico

I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
Anthony Caro

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
Elsa Maxwell

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
André Gide

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
Neil Simon

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad Henry

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, I am with you kid. Let's go.
Maya Angelou

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt
Calvin Trillin

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner

Who but knows
How it goes!
Life's a last year's rose
William Ernest Henley

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martin

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different
Chris Klein

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
Henrik Ibsen

Life was a lot simpler when what we honoured was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes

Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.
William Gass

I cannot believe that you've given us [me] a hundred grand... other contestants are telling me to spend it wisely and stuff, I hope they don't feel sorry for us [me], I have a great family and life. [The Geordie on being given £100k on Big Brother 8]
Liam McGough

They took us out to dinner and interrogated us in a friendly way about life in England and what we thought and politics [on an apparent KGB interview he had!]
David Cameron

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life. My problems aren't so different from anybody else. I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction
Mariel Hemingway

A sonnet is a moment's monument,- Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour. (The House of Life)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson



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