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• Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

  ― Don Piatt
   
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• Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

  ― Tom Stoppard
  Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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• Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

  ― Vladimir Nabokov
  American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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• Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.

  ― Bernie S. Siegel
  American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  ― Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Life is a series of commas, not periods.
  

  ― Matthew McConaughey
  American actor, director, producer, writer, and co-teacher (1969 - )
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• Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

  ― John Burroughs
  American writer (1837 - 1921)
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• Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

  ― Gilda Radner
   
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• Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

  ― Cormac McCarthy
  American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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• Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

  ― Carolina Herrera
  Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

  ― Sir Humphry Davy
  British chemist and inventor
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• Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.

  ― Anthony J. D'Angelo
  American writer
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• Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
  

  ― Gordon B. Hinckley
  American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

  ― Jack London
  American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  ― Imelda Marcos
  Filipino politician and first lady (1929 - )
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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  ― Søren Kierkegaard
  Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  ― Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

  ― Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  ― Lady Randolph Churchill
  American-born British socialite, mother of Winston Churchill
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Subjects in these quotes:

• semi-transparent
• consciousness
• experienced
• surrounding
• accountable
• therefore

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