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Life Quotes

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

- Thomas Mann

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Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed.

- William Ellery Channing

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

- Albert Schweitzer

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

- William Osler

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Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

- Deborah Tannen

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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

- Frederick Buechner

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

- Will Rogers

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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

- Madame de Stael

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The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

- Raymond Charles Barker

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Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

- Stephen Covey

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