Life

(140 votes)   If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Alphonse De Lamartine
1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian

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(134 votes)   It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892-1950, American Poet

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(133 votes)   Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(132 votes)   It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(132 votes)   Laughter may be the best medicine but music is the aspirin of the soul.

Allen Gentzler
Getting Wiser

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(132 votes)   Life is a voyage.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(131 votes)   I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27: 13-14

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(131 votes)   Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(131 votes)   There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us strably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

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(129 votes)   Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pier Paolo Pasolini
1922-1975, Italian Filmmaker, Author

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(129 votes)   Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Indian Proverbs
Sayings of Indian Origin

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(128 votes)   Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA

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(128 votes)   In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(126 votes)   When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(125 votes)   It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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