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Life Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
- Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it…
- The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but…
- Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of…
- Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
- What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as…
- When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
- The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the…
- It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves,…
- The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
- Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us…
- When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
- Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go…
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