Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 4001 till 4020 of 4256.

  • Boethius Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Robert Frost Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Caroline Knapp Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • William James Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bill Parcells Why would you live your life worrying about something that's not going to happen?
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Roland Barthes Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafĂ© to the speech at a formal dinner.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Denis Waitley Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Seneca Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Aristophanes Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • William Wordsworth With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Amelia E. Barr With renunciation life begins.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Carl Rogers With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Winston Churchill Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carroll Quigley Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Without discipline, there's no life at all.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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