Quotes with life

Quotes 3621 till 3640 of 4235.

  • 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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  • W. H. Auden To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald To write it - three months, to conceive it - three minutes. To collect the data in it - all my life.
    Zelf-interview over This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Takijiro Ohnishi Today in bloom, tomorrow as afallen petals, like a delicate flower, life is.
    Takijiro Ohnishi
    Japanese admiral (1891 - 1945)
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  • Dale Carnegie Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Lewis Mumford Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Tom Hopkins Today, you have 100% of your life left.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • James F. Byrnes Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
    James F. Byrnes
    American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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  • David Gemmell Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.
    The King Beyond the Gate (1985)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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