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- Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around…
- Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
- Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
- Every life is its own excuse for being.
- Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
- Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
- Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that…
- The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
- Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in…
- A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
- Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
- Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
- The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
- Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling…
- I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.
- In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what…
- Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
- You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life,…
- Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
- Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression…
- Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother,…
- The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
- To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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- 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