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- I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
- Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
- Life is wasted on the living.
- 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.
- The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a…
- I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
- What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of…
- He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- 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…
- Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside,…
- and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang…
- A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.…
- Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that…
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting…
- The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
- And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore…
- We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They…
- If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of…
- Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.
- All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one…
- The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
- Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.
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- 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
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- 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