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William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

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E. M. Forster

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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Corita Kent

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

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John Ruskin

There is no wealth but life.

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Horace

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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Ben Stein

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

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Laurence Sterne

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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Woody Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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Samuel Butler

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

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Jean Paul

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

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Emily Dickinson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

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William Christopher Handy

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

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Ursula Andress

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

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William Feather

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

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Henri Frederic Amiel

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

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Theodor Adorno

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

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Dave Barry

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

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Hugh Leonard

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

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Truman Capote

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

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Jerry Seinfeld

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

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B. F. Skinner

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

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Samuel Butler

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

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John Henry Newman

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

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Jean Anouilh

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

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Desiderius Erasmus

To know nothing is the happiest life.

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Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

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John Cleese

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

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Sara Teasdale

Life is but thought.

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Julia Child

Life itself is the proper binge.

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Horace Walpole

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

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Barbara Kingsolver

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

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Charles Lindbergh

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

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Amos Bronson Alcott

The less routine the more life.

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Abraham Cahan

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

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Rebecca West

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

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Henry Adams

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

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Louis Armstrong

What we play is life.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

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O. Henry

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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Brendan Gill

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

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William Lyon Phelps

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

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William Ellery Channing

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

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Robert Herrick

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

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Karl A. Menninger

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

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