Quotes about life
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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.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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.
You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Life's too short to just breeze on by.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
