Quotes with life-saving

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Chilton Pearce To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
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  • Buddha To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Gaston Bachelard To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bethany Hamilton To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Hiaasen To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Walters To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Nathaniel Branden To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Agnes Martin To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Albert Maltz To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Confucius To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Wallace Stevens To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Jean Anouilh To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • William James To spend life for something which outlasts it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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