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Life Quotes (page 800)

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth. Quentin Crisp
But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow.'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.''Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman.'It may be,' said the Lion. L. Frank Baum
The poor little thing, she'd saved this student's letter as a treasure and had run to fetch this precious treasure of hers, not wanting me to leave without knowing that she too was the object of sincere, honest love, and that someone exists who had spoken to her respectfully. Probably that letter was fated to lie in her box without results. But that didn't matter; I'm sure that she'll guard it as a treasure her whole life, as her pride and vindication; and now, at a moment like this, she... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jonathan Carroll quote: "I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down..."
I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work. Jonathan Carroll
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them Mark Haddon
In life, there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass. Paulo Coelho
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "There are some books that reached through the noise of life to..."
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things. Jeffrey Eugenides
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. Steve Jobs
Khalil Gibran quote: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and..."
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself Khalil Gibran
If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. Rainer Maria Rilke
Vaclav Havel quote: "The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of..."
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. Vaclav Havel
I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself. Jodi Picoult
To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died. Louisa May Alcott
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't. Hugh Prather
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters? whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Paulo Coelho

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