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There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably done.
– Sara Teasdale
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
– Sara Teasdale
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
– Tecumseh
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
– Tecumseh
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Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
– Edward Teller
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When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
– William Temple
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I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
– John Templeton
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The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth.
– John Templeton
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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.
– Terence
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Where there's life, there's hope.
– Terence
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I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?
– Mother Teresa
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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa
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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
– Mother Teresa
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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
– Valentina Tereshkova
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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
– Ellen Terry
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
– Paul Theroux
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Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
– Paul Theroux
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The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
– Lewis Thomas
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
– Norman Thomas
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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
– Dave Thomas
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Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
– Rose Thomas
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But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.
– Richard Thompson
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I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
– Virgil Thomson
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
– Henry David Thoreau
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
– Henry David Thoreau
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
– Henry David Thoreau
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
– Henry David Thoreau
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
– Henry David Thoreau
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
– Henry David Thoreau
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
– Henry David Thoreau
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
– Henry David Thoreau
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
– Henry David Thoreau
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
– Henry David Thoreau
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
– Henry David Thoreau
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
– Henry David Thoreau
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
– Henry David Thoreau
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I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
– Billy Bob Thornton
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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
– Uma Thurman
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
– Paul Tillich
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
– Paul Tillich
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
– Leo Tolstoy
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
– Leo Tolstoy
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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
– Leo Tolstoy
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
– Leo Tolstoy
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
– Barry Took
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People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.
– Robert Towne
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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
– Arnold J. Toynbee
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There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that life is just one damned thing after another. human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
– Arnold J. Toynbee
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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
– A. W. Tozer
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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
– A. W. Tozer
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For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.
– Spencer Tracy
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Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
– Simon Travaglia
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Life isn't a video machine. It doesn't have a rewind, stop, pause, or an edit/re-record button.
– Simon Travaglia
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On the bus of MY life, sometimes I drive, sometimes I'm just a passenger and other times (like now) I'm a tour guide.
– Simon Travaglia
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Retrospect is the rear-view mirror of life. Don't spend too much time looking in it or you'll miss out on the IMPORTANT STUFF that's coming up.
– Simon Travaglia
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There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
– Simon Travaglia
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I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
– John Travolta
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Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
– Alex Trebek
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It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
– Alex Trebek
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Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.
– Alex Trebek
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
– Calvin Trillin
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As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
– Anthony Trollope
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
– Anthony Trollope
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
– Leon Trotsky
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
– Leon Trotsky
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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
– Pierre Trudeau
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All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
– Harry S. Truman
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
– Harry S. Truman
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How do you live a long life? Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
– Harry S. Truman
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My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
– Harry S. Truman
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Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations. We set down on paper the only principles which will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.
– Harry S. Truman
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Everything in life is luck.
– Donald Trump
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Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
– Lana Turner
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My life has been a series of emergencies.
– Lana Turner
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
– Ted Turner
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The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
– Ted Turner
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
– Mark Twain
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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
– Mark Twain
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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
– Mark Twain
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
– Mark Twain
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
– Mark Twain
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There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
– Mark Twain
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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
– Mark Twain
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
– Mark Twain
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I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
– Shania Twain
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I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.
– Shania Twain
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Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
– Shania Twain
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