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Quotations on Life
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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
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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