Quotes about life
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
It is easy for an individual to move through those insensible gradations from left to right, but the act of crossing the Floor is one which requires serious attention. I am well informed on this matter for I have accomplished that difficult process, not only once, but twice.
Don't cry over spilt milk.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom — how great is that?
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Forget the past — the future will give you plenty to worry about.
I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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.
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