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Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
Sylvester Stallone

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Sir Thomas More

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see (in James Parton's Life of Jackson)
Andrew Jackson

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William Osler

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
John Berger

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes

To live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam Paryani

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life (On Harold Macmillan sacking 7 cabinet members)
Jeremy Thorpe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money...
Orison Swett Marden

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life (Econometrica)
J R Hicks

"Weed's part of my life. It's just always been with me."
Melanie Blatt

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing
Laurens Van Der Post

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
Kofi Annan

I suspect that in another life I attended the Spanish Inquisition as a volunteer.
Sandi Toksvig

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 harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David Hume

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

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
Jimmy Cliff

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
Keanu Reeves

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: 'You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.'
Cesare Pavese

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.
Paul Davies

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they? [High Novelist]
Nick Hornby

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai Stevenson

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo Philips

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustav Flaubert

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

Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
Henry Miller

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
Gresham Barrett

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
David Lodge

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John Gardner

The meaning of life is that it stops.
Franz Kafka

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. They shiver you for a split second. [Just taste like salt to me! - Ed]
Eleanor Clark

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself
Richard Hammond

I had a hard time dealing with what I wanted to do with my life.
Michael Easton

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
Rachel Carson

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

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

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman



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