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Life Quotes by Sherwood Anderson
- The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs…
- There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is…
- It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
- Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.
- I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am…
- There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and…
- What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders,…
- I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts,…
- People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.
- From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.…
- Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when…
- In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths…
- Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not try to make love definite.…
- As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his…
- Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.
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