Quotes with life-time

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• One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

  Year to Success

  Bo Bennett
  American author (1972 - )
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• Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.

  On War (1832) Ch. 23

  Carl von Clausewitz
  Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.

  Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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• Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

  Novalis
  German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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• Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

  Novalis
  German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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• Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  E. M. Forster
  English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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• Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

  Tallulah Bankhead
  American actress (1902 - 1968)
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• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

  Carol Burnett
  American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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• Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
  
  

  Terry Pratchett
  English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

  E. M. Cioran
  French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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• Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

  Alberto Giacometti
  Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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• Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

  The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24

  Joan Didion
  American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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• Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

  Saunders
   
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• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

  Anthony Robbins
  American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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• Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

  Bob Marley
  Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• disappointing
• contribution
• intellectual
• soul-wasting
• depression
• experience

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