Life Quotes

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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. — Marcus Aurelius
The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. — Marcus Aurelius
Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think… — Marcus Aurelius
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea… — Sri Aurobindo
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,… — Sri Aurobindo
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. — Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. — Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her… — Jane Austen
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can. — Paul Auster
Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — Paul Auster
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster
I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a… — Paul Auster
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have… — Diane Ackerman
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman

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