Life famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
-- Aristotle -
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
-- Aristotle -
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
-- Aristotle -
What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
-- Aristotle -
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
-- Aristotle -
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
-- Aristotle -
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
-- Aristotle -
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
-- Aristotle -
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
-- Aristotle -
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
-- Aristotle -
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
-- Aristotle -
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
-- Aristotle -
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
-- Aristotle -
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
-- Aristotle -
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
-- Aristotle -
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
-- Aristotle -
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You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.
-- Arjuna Ranatunga -
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
-- Arnold Bennett -
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
-- Arnold Bennett -
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For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
-- Art Buchwald -
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
-- Art Linkletter -
Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.
-- Arthur Adamov -
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
-- Arthur Ashe -
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
-- Arthur Ashe -
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
-- Arthur Ashe -
In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.
-- Arthur Balfour -
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Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
The only real problem in life is what to do next.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
-- Arthur Golden -
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
-- Arthur Golden -
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
-- Arthur Golden -
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We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.
-- Arthur Helps -
Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.
-- Arthur Lynch -
We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
-- Arthur Lynch -
Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.
-- Arthur Lynch -
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Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.
-- Arthur Lynch -
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
-- Arthur Miller -
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They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."
-- Arthur Miller -
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
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We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Human life must be some form of mistake.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.
-- Arthur Symons -
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The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
-- Arundhati Roy -
It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.
-- Arundhati Roy -
There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.
-- Ase-Marie Nesse -
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What love will make you do All the things that we accept Be the things that we regret
-- Ashanti -
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
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Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
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Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
-- Ashley Montagu -
Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.
-- Ashley Purdy -
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
-- Ashley Smith -
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Live life messy and love every moment of it.
-- Ashley Smith -
Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.
-- Ashley Smith -
Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.
-- Athos M. Amorim -
The warrior for the True, the Right, Fights in Love's name; The love that lures thee from that fight Lures thee to shame: That love which lifts the heart, yet leaves The spirit free,- That love, or none, is fit for one Man-shaped like thee.
-- Aubrey Thomas de Vere -
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
-- Audre Lorde -
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
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No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-- Audrey Niffenegger -