Quotes about life
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
Augustus William Hare, Julius Charles Hare, "Guesses at Truth"
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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.
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
It's fun to have a partner who understands your life and lets you be you.
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.