Quotes about life
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If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one - the solitary one - that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices - the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also - in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.
It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive'. I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
Augustus William Hare, Julius Charles Hare, "Guesses at Truth"
It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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