Quotes about life
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Of course, when you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
