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Success
in life is not a matter so much of talent or opportunity but of concentration
and perseverence.
C. W. Wendte
As
the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns,
as the heavens are sometimes overcast -- alternately tempestuous and serene
-- so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys
and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
Edmond Burke
Our
ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the
box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
It
is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory
of a well-spent life never dies.
Cicero
Life
always takes on the character of its motive.
J. G. Holland
Our
life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Human
affairs are like a chess game: Only those who do not take is seriously
can be called good players.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng
The
greatest results in life are usually obtained by simple means and the
exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed
up in these two: common sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham
The
great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Life
is an arrow—therefore you must know
What mark to aim at, how to use the bow—
Then draw it to the head and let it go.
Henry Van Dyke
Humankind
has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.
Chief Seattle
Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
Marion Wright Edelman
Don't
go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
There
comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the
circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus
May
you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
Our
life is frittered away by detail...
Simplify, simplify.
Thoreau
We
think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead
The
aim of life is to live,
and to live means to be aware,
joyously, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
Life
is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they
are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if
you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again,
and you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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