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Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
– Alexander Volkov
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A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
– Jenny Craig
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Don't expect to see positive changes in your life if you surround yourself with negative people.
– Robert Tew
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
– Grace Hansen
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
– Andy Rooney
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
– Albert Einstein
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We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
– Antisthenes
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He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
– Alfred Adler
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
– George Burns
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
– Walter Bagehot
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
– Patrick Henry
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
– Voltaire
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There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
– Stephen Covey
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When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
– Nelson Mandela
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Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
– Danny Kaye
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
– Thomas A. Edison
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
– Marie Curie
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
– Helen Keller
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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
– Woody Allen
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If you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
– Peter Shaffer
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
– Margaret Mitchell
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
– Carol Burnett
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Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
– Phillip Brooks
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Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
– Jack London
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
– Anais Nin
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
– Amelia Earhart
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Life is trying things to see if they work.
– Ray Bradbury
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
– Elbert Hubbard
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It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
– Aristophanes
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
– W. Somerset Maugham
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
– Lord Acton
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
– Lou Holtz
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
– George Bernard Shaw
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What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.
– Socrates
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
– Mark Twain
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
– James Truslow Adams
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
– Hank Aaron
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Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
– Berenice Abbott
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Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.
– Berenice Abbott
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
– Diane Ackerman
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
– Douglas Adams
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Life is wasted on the living.
– Douglas Adams
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
– Douglas Adams
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That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
– Douglas Adams
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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
– Franklin P. Adams
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
– Henry B. Adams
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
– Henry B. Adams
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You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
– Scott Adams
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
– Samuel Adams
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
– James Truslow Adams
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
– Henry Adams
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If you do this, we all of us shall be rewarded by the betterment of our towns, the beautification of our streets, the improvement of our suburbs; we shall have made one step forward to still further elevating, improving, and dignifying the life of our citizens.
– Thomas Adams
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Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.
– Thomas Adams
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
– Joseph Addison
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
– Joseph Addison
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
– Joseph Addison
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
– Joseph Addison
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
– Joseph Addison
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Joseph Addison
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
– Joseph Addison
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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
– George Ade
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What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
– Alfred Adler
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New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.
– Daniel Akaka
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This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
– Mark Akenside
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The less routine the more life.
– Amos Bronson Alcott
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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
– Amos Bronson Alcott
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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
– Louisa May Alcott
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Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
– Louisa May Alcott
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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
– Buzz Aldrin
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Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
– William Alexander
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
– William R. Alger
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
– Muhammad Ali
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Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
– Muhammad Ali
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
– Muhammad Ali
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
– Muhammad Ali
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Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
– Muhammad Ali
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Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
– Muhammad Ali
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We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
– Muhammad Ali
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
– Saul Alinsky
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
– Saul Alinsky
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
– Wayne Allard
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I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood.
– Wayne Allard
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
– Fred Allen
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
– Fred Allen
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One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
– George Allen
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
– James Allen
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All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
– James Allen
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
– James Allen
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I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
– Woody Allen
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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
– Woody Allen
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
– Woody Allen
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