Quotes about life
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Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Into each life some rain must fall.
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living — a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
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