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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
– Kingsley Amis
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
– Martin Amis
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The facts of life are very stubborn things.
– Cleveland Amory
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It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
– Pamela Anderson
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Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
– Pamela Anderson
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
– Pamela Anderson
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I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
– Gillian Anderson
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My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
– Gillian Anderson
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Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
– Greg Anderson
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
– Barbara de Angelis
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
– Barbara de Angelis
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
– Barbara de Angelis
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
– Barbara de Angelis
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I find it interresting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.
– Maya Angelou
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
– Maya Angelou
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Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
– Kofi Annan
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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
– Jean Anouilh
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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
– Jean Anouilh
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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
– Jean Anouilh
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
– Jean Anouilh
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
– Jean Anouilh
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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
– Minna Antrim
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When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.
– Christina Applegate
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In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
– Yasser Arafat
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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
– Louis Aragon
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
– Diane Arbus
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
– Hannah Arendt
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
– Hannah Arendt
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
– Hannah Arendt
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
– Aristotle
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
– Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
– Aristotle
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
– Aristotle
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Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.
– Dido Armstrong
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
– Matthew Arnold
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
– Matthew Arnold
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It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
– Thomas Arnold
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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
– Thomas Arnold
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'Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!'
– George Arnold
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
– Antonin Artaud
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
– Antonin Artaud
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When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
– Antonin Artaud
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I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
– Chester A. Arthur
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
– Beatrice Arthur
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
– Mary Kay Ash
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
– Mary Kay Ash
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
– Arthur Ashe
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
– Arthur Ashe
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
– Isaac Asimov
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
– Isaac Asimov
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
– Isaac Asimov
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I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life.
– Sean Astin
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There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.
– Sean Astin
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
– Nancy Astor
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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
– Brooks Atkinson
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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life, the word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away a man who's untrue to his wife.
– W. H. Auden
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Your life is what your thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
– Jane Austen
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
– Jane Austen
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We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
– Mahmoud Abbas
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Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
– Lyman Abbott
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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
– Geoffrey F. Abert
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
– Edmond About
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A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
– Lucius Accius
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Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
– Philip Andrew Adams
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In the course of my life I have tried Boston socially on all sides: I have summered it and wintered it, tried it drunk and tried it sober; and, drunk or sober, there's nothing in it - save Boston!
– Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
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It is easy thus to outline a few external characteristics of the seminary, but difficult to picture its inner life.
– Herbert Baxter Adams
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
– Stella Adler
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I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.
– Mohamed Al-Fayed
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
– Mitch Albom
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Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
– Cathy Allen
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
– Karen Allen
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
– Karen Allen
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Woman embroiders man's life - Embroider is to beautify - The embroidery of cleanliness - Of a smile - Of gentle words.
– Mary Wood Allen
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Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's good life and tomorrow's path to the grave. He does not want his later years to be a sentence of solitary confinement in society. Nor does he want them to be a death watch.
– David Allman
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So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
– Gordon W. Allport
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I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit.
– Summer Altice
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I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.
– Mukesh Ambani
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I live a very real life.
– Anastacia
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
– Hans Christian Andersen
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
– Walter Anderson
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
– Walter Anderson
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My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making.
– Beth Anderson
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I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.
– Judith Anderson
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There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
– Judith Anderson
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
– Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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The theory of Dirac requires further that a positron, when it finds itself in a very ordinary environment, as, for example, in passing through common substances, will, on the average, have only a very short life, of the order of one billionth of a second or less.
– Carl D. Anderson
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
– Carl Andre
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
– Carl Andre
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