Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
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Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
Alex Tan
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Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take
Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: epigraph from Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up
for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period
of barrenness.
Aristotle
Quotes , Source: Rhetoric (II, 15, par. III)
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We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,
A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
Edwin Arnold
Quotes , Source: Light of Asia
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.
Matthew Arnold
Quotes , Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
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If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
Win Borden
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Oscar Wilde
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.
Swami Vivekananda
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Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like
Zelda Fitzgerald
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
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Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
Horace
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure
Peter Marshall
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Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age had and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.
[Lat., Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus
Post pucundam juventutem.
Post molestam senectutem.
Nos habetit humus.]
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: (John Addington Symonds' translation)
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Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word,
That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: The Roxburghe Ballads--A Friend's Advice (pt. II, edited by William Chappell)
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If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief that every little breath
Will stay with you for an eternity.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: The Roxburghe Ballads--A Friend's Advice (pt. II, edited by William Chappell)
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.
Diane Ackerman
Quotes , Source: quoted in "Newsweek"
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