Quotes with mid-life

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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity,
    Which join'd with Time and Industry,
    Had carry'd Life's Conveniences,
    It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease,
    To such a Height, the very Poor
    Liv'd better than the Rich before.
    The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 197, p. 11
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Alan Lakein Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
    Alan Lakein
    American author on personal time management
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  • Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • John Dryden Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bruce Lee Time means a lot to me because, you see, i, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • R. I. Fitzhenry Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
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  • Arvo Part Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Frank Gelett Burgess To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
    Frank Gelett Burgess
    American artist, art critic and poet
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  • Peace Pilgrim To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Alex Grey To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Marlene Dietrich To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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