Life

(113 votes)   If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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(113 votes)   There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Kathleen Norris
1880-1966, American Novelist

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(110 votes)   Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(109 votes)   This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(109 votes)   What is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

George Eliot

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(108 votes)   Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(107 votes)   Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(105 votes)   People hide pain so well it’s scary.

Savannah Poole
writer

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(104 votes)   Goethe said, 'Talent is developed in privacy, ' you know?And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(104 votes)   Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(104 votes)   The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE

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(103 votes)   The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(102 votes)   As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(101 votes)   First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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(101 votes)   Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.

John Lennon
1940-1980, An English member of the “Beatles” & songwriter.

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