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Life Is Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
- Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old…
- Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
- You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
- Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed…
- To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all…
- Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he…
- This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
- The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
- However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part…
- Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny…
- The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
- That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
- Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
- The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
- Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
- If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly…
- However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
- The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
- Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as…
- The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
- My life is like a stroll upon the beach.
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- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo