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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
– Henry Ellis
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
– Henry Ellis
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
– Henry Ellis
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
– Henry Ellis
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. . . . A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
– Henry Ellis
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The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.
– Henry Ellis
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I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.
– Cary Elwes
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I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.
– Cary Elwes
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
– Michael Ende
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Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
– Michael Ende
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There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.
– Jim England
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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
– Nora Ephron
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
– Epicurus
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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
– Epicurus
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
– Epicurus
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason -you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
– Euripides
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No one is happy all his life long.
– Euripides
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
– Euripides
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There is just one life for each of us: our own.
– Euripides
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Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours.
– Stephen Evans
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I'm not a Sundance guy either. I've never had applause lasting over two minutes in my life but we had a 17-minute standing ovation.
– Robert Evans
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Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
– Chris Evert
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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
– Chris Evert
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It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
– Eknath Easwaran
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The life of a religious might be compared to the building of a cathedral once a firm foundation has been laid, the building rises slowly.
– Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
– Leon Edel
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The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
– Leon Edel
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
– Maria Edgeworth
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Life is always at some turning point.
– Irwin Edman
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Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond earth.
– Krafft A. Ehricke
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Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
– Michael Eisner
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I'm not some big party chick, so it's not like I have to keep up my big social life.
– Jenna Elfman
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible?
– Alexander Eliot
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Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.
– Stanley Elkin
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A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.
– George P. Elliott
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We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
– Jane Elliott
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Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
– Alice Thomas Ellis
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As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kids.
– Delia Ephron
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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
– Lou Erickson
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
– Erik H. Erikson
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through.
– Gloria Estefan
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One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
– L. Estrange
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The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
– Melissa Etheridge
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
– Euripedes
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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
– Richard L. Evans
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
– Dale Evans
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Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
– Angie Everhart
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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.
– Helen Exley
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When I wake up every morning and realize that I get to go out and do music as opposed to having to say, 'Would you like fries with that, sir?' I'm so thankful that I'm actually paid to do this thing that I've loved all my life.
– Bob Ezrin
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
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I just feel so blessed to be able to [act], because it's unbelievable to work with these great actors that I have worked with and I have all these friends that I've made on sets that I'll have all my life. That's the best part about it.
– Dakota Fanning
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
– Dakota Fanning
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No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.
– Dakota Fanning
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
– Dakota Fanning
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That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.
– Dakota Fanning
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We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
– George Farquhar
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I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.
– Colin Farrell
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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
– William Faulkner
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
– William Faulkner
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
– William Faulkner
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
– William Feather
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
– William Feather
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For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
– Dianne Feinstein
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I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
– Morton Feldman
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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
– Bob Feller
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You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
– Bob Feller
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A different language is a different vision of life.
– Federico Fellini
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
– Edna Ferber
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Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrTes, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.
– Edna Ferber
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I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
– Joanna Field
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You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
– Henry Fielding
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
– W. C. Fields
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
– James Thomas Fields
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Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
– Suzanne Fields
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Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
– Suzanne Fields
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The world witnessed the pope's suffering at the same time Terri Schiavo's food-and-water feeding tubes were removed, making us all acutely aware of the moral and spiritual debates we must confront to plumb the mystery of life and death. Such moral debates must continue, if we want to resist the slippery slope that would take us where none wants to go.
– Suzanne Fields
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Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.
– Harvey S. Firestone
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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
– Ernst Fischer
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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
– Geoffrey Fisher
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry: 'Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.
– Edward Fitzgerald
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