Best Own Lives Proverbs
339 Own Lives quotes by 293 unique authors
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Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they…
— Baroness Orczy
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I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take…
— Amy Sedaris
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And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their…
— Jodi Picoult
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It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with…
— Mary Roach
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If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think…
— Terry Goodkind
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None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of God. We all…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to…
— Katherine Paterson
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Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.
— Sophie Hannah
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As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events…
— Stefan Zweig
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If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we…
— Loren Eiseley
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Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but…
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
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When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the…
— Dean Koontz
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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on…
— Robert Kennedy
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There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power…
— Alain de Botton
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The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and…
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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The Savior taught His disciples, 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.
— Francis Chan
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The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
— Albert Camus
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