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  • Confucius Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • John Irving Life is serious but art is fun!
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Josh Billings Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Yann Martel Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance.
    Het leven van Pi p.18
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • John Wayne Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
    John Wayne
    American actor and filmmaker (1907 - 1979)
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  • Publilius Syrus Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • C. Neil Strait Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, but it returneth.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
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  • Samuel Johnson Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Jane Austen Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Burns Life's but a day at most.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Martin Luther King Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Alan Dundes Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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