Life

(99 votes)   In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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(98 votes)   I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

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(98 votes)   Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(97 votes)   Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(97 votes)   Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet

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(97 votes)   Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Alexander Maclaren
1826-1910, British Preacher

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(97 votes)   Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(96 votes)   Live, let live, and help live

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(96 votes)   There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(95 votes)   I didn't pay much attention to the whistles and whoops, in fact, I didn't quite hear them. I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jeane from the orphanage who belonged to nobody; the other was someone whose name I didn't know. But I knew where she belonged; she belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(95 votes)   I'm afraid sometimes you'll play lonely games too, games you can't win because you'll play against you.

Dr. Seuss
American Writer and Cartoonist, b. 1904-1991

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(95 votes)   One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Dale Carnegie
1888-1955, American Author, Trainer

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(95 votes)   Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Frank Dane

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(94 votes)   The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

Warren G. Bennis

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(93 votes)   Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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