Quotes by life

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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 1835-1910

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Everything you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Robertson Davies
Canadian novelist and journalist 1913-

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
George Ade
American humorist, playwright 1866-1944

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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
Henry David Thoreau
American writer 1817-1862

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Philip Adams
British career diplomat. 1915-2001

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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Bertrand Russell
English philosopher and mathematician 1872-1970

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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Camille Paglia
American academic and social critic 1947-

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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
Source: As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
Joseph Addison
English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Denis Waitley
American motivational speaker, writer and consultant 1933-

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Ernest Hemingway
American writer 1899-1961

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
French essayist and philosopher 1533-1592

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Eileen Caddy
Scottisch spiritual teacher 1917-2006

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Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Stephen Hawking
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director 1942-2018

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However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Walter Cronkite
American broadcast journalist 1916-2009

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Les Brown
American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ 1945-

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Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.