Best Life Like Wisdom
421 Life Like quotes by 353 unique authors
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In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure…
— Steve Wozniak
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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your…
— Ellen Bass
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Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.
— Sheri L. Dew
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There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those…
— Gena Showalter
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To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An…
— James A. Baldwin
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And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may…
— Peter Cameron
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...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot…
— Daniel Keyes
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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a…
— Ann Brashares
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I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
— Edith Wharton
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Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those…
— Thomas Mann
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They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never…
— Jodi Picoult
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...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for…
— Janet Fitch
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All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
— Anna Quindlen
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A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I'd seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death in this forest.…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around.…
— Richard Carlson
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when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his,…
— Henri Nouwen
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After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,…
— Charles Bukowski
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it…
— Ann Brashares
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The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It…
— Rob Sheffield
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Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.
— Brandon Mull
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His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that…
— William Golding
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