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Life Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
- I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment…
- When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
- Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
- We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
- Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
- The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
- Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
- We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
- EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.
- Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?
- you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
- People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
- Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English…
- But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a…
- Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
- All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.
- But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among…
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- 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