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Mountaineering is a game second only to the greatest and best of man's games - life.
George Finch

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.
Gary Condit

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. [Just one of the many differences between art and reality!]
Gunther Grass

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks

It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov

Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
Cathy Allen

It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
Pamela Anderson

It may take one's whole life to give proper meaning to the words, 'I love you.'
John A Marshall

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.
Josh Billings

With Adelaide bursting at the seams with England supporters - many of whom are on the trip of a lifetime - there will be no shortage of animated encouragement for Andrew Flintoff’s men over the next five days. But the question is whether or not the team can deliver.
Jonathan Agnew

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron

From the first dawn of life unto the grave,
Poor womankind's in every state a slave.
('The Emulation' - 1703)
Sarah Egerton

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron

Some deep thinkers believe life is a paradox not to be understood but experienced to the fullest
Gillian Mckeith

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it (Thunder on the Left)
Christopher Morley

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Keller

'I spend a lot of my life in back of cars - Oops! I didn't mean that in the way it sounded. Like hence the two kids.'
Kerry Katona

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
Erika Christensen

I am now going to express my personal life through art.
Britney Spears

I've dreamed about scoring on Sunday. I do like to visualise goals but it's not something I do every night - I do have a life you know! [he didn't score in the play off final]
Rob Hulse

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William James

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
Jean Harris

'I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.'
Jimi Hendrix

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose.
Peter McWilliams

It's been hard the last few months but one must try having hope in life and love. That's the way I'm trying to look at things.
Ulrika Jonsson

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming
Myrna Loy

'My life does not suck'
Tommy Lee

When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
Neve Campbell

It is oft commented that by the time we are wise we do not possess the physical attributes to be able to make the most of what we have learned - the tragedy of life.
Frank Freas

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin

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

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
Walter Benjamin

It's a shame that this is going to be my last US Open, but I am now looking forward to the rest of my life after tennis.
Tim Henman

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron

Keith has given me a reason to enjoy life again [on her husband]
Nicole Kidman



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