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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Bryant H. McGill

Poet · American · b. 1969

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Helen Rowland

Writer · American

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Novelist · French · 1900 – 1944

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher · French · 1533 – 1592

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer

Novelist · American · 1923 – 2007

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Carter Burwell

Composer · American · b. 1955

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

Author · English · 1832 – 1898

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Khalil Gibran

Poet · 1883 – 1931

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Elia Kazan

Director · American · 1909 – 2003

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Ambrose Bierce

Journalist · American · b. 1842

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Gustav Mahler

Composer · Austrian · 1860 – 1911

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Robert Mondavi

Businessman · American · 1913 – 2008

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Albert Camus

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Henry Miller

Author · American · 1891 – 1980

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Gaston Bachelard

Philosopher · French · 1884 – 1962

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

Abu Bakr

Statesman · Saudi Arabian

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

Writer · American · 1907 – 1988

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Leader · Indian · 1889 – 1964

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

Dave Barry

Journalist · American · b. 1947

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Writer · French

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

James Cash Penney

Businessman · American · 1875 – 1971

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

Mitch Daniels

Politician · American · b. 1949

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Franz Kafka

Novelist · Austrian · 1883 – 1924

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

Journalist · American · b. 1951

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Author · American

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher · French · 1905 – 1980

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Jim Rohn

Businessman · American

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Buddha

Leader

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Karl Marx

Philosopher · German · 1818 – 1883

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

Critic · English · 1778 – 1830

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

Pauline Hanson

Politician · Australian · b. 1954

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

Martin Bashir

Journalist · British · b. 1963

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

Henri Poincare

Mathematician · French · 1854 – 1912

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Author · American · b. 1926

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

Geraldine Ferraro

Politician · American · 1935 – 2011

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

Businessman · American · b. 1946

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

Psychologist · Swiss · 1875 – 1961

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Philosopher · Swiss · b. 1821

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Wayne Dyer

Psychologist · American · b. 1940

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