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.
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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.
Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
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.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
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.
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Time heals all wounds.