Upon Life Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back,…
— Joyce Cary
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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It…
— H.G. Wells
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Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies…
— Helen Keller
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Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the…
— Edward Abbey
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The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
— Frank Norris
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
— Stephen Covey
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
— Rosa Parks
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When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
— Raoul Vaneigem
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and…
— Louis Bromfield
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will…
— Gustave Flaubert
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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.
— Rudyard Kipling
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't…
— Rosa Parks
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Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and…
— Carl Jung
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You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet,…
— George Matthew Adams
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Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
— William James
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't…
— Rosa Parks
Who Wrote These Upon Life Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Upon Life Quotes as follows: