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Life Quotes by Andre Maurois
- A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the…
- The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things…
- The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
- There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
- The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)…
- Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art…
- The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
- If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the…
- Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in…
- An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle