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"6076 Life Quotes

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Fault Food Give Joy
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Adult Believe Child Dead
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Intolerable Knowing Life Makes
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As a people, we have peculiarities, and we must identify them instead of jamborees.

Person Identify Instead Must
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Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

Animal Chased King Most
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Banished Earth First Mankind
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

Because Death Died Each
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.

Actress Circles Designers Famous
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Amount Break Hearts Including
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Abuse Deprive Found Jealousy
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Begins Growth Liberty Plant
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Army Discipline Esteem Formidable
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Become Canvas Concrete Different
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Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Away Bad Kind Lost
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Against Guard Patriotism Pretended
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There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Calculate Cure Discard Error
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Possession Easier Enemy Experience
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Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Bigot Christianity Church Direct
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Darkness Drive Hate Light
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

After Again Any Being
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Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

Good Idea Just Sex
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Dead Die Everyone Going
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Goes Instrument Learning Life
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Beauty Empire Give Happy
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The time is always right to do what is right.

Always Right Time
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Accept Become Believe Bound
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Boat Come Different May
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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Doing Life Most Others
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Brothers Fools Learn Live
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Character Color Content Day
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Accept Disappointment Finite Hope
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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Cuts Heals Sword Man
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Die Discovered Fit Live
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Important Life Longevity Quality
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Dignity Excellence Humanity Importance
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Affects Directly Ought Reality
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There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Being Chill Time Glittering
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Bogged Breadth Devoid Down
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The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Creative Dire Extremists Kind
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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Our life is full of empty space.
Empty Empty Space Full Life
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dew Flash Human Life
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Down Find Full Life
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Animals Business Enjoy Except
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Art Conclusions Drawing Insufficient
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Believe Fully Humans Important
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Aims Enjoy Learned Life
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