Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 3641 till 3660 of 4256.

  • 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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  • Barbara Delinsky Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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