Quotes about life
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Joseph Campbell

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If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Penny Marshall

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Les Brown

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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot

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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot

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May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

D. H. Lawrence

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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

Louis L'Amour

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Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

Charles M. Schulz

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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Stendhal

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Bob Hope

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

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What do you do when life blindfolds you and spins you around? We think it's our fault, that we're to blame, when really we should be focused on being gentle with ourselves.

Melody Beattie

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