Quotes: life
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Our life is frittered away by details.
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Anthony Robbins
American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach
1960-
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
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Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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Lester Bangs
American music journalist, critic and author
1948-1982
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
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John Mortimer
English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author
1923-2009
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that ''we choose death.''
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What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
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When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.
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