Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 4256.

  • Andrew Carnegie Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Carter G. Woodson This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Siddha Nagarjuna This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Wolfe This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Bernard Shaw This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
    Man and Superman (1903) Epistle dedicatory
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Rebecca West This is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but a sure way of losing it.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • William James This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Buddha This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ann Druyan This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Buddy Wakefield This poem may have meant nothing to you but I am confident that tonight my taking the time to actually write out my anger instead of acting on it has saved the life of at least eleven people in parking enforcement.
    Poetry Flare Guns and Earthquakes
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Matthew Arnold This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Abbe Pierre Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Bob Geldof Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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