Quotes about life
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Children make your life important.
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.