Life Quotes

• "Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens."
  By: Jason Q., from Generation Terrorists
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• "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent plant. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
  By: Jack London
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• "I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worry about are of no importance whatsoever."
  By: Isak Dinesen
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• "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice."
  By: Indian Proverb
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• "Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most he mingles both."
  By: Homer Illiad
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• "The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before."
  By: Herman Melville, White Jacket
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• "God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Psalm of Life
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• "Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life
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• "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
  By: Henry Van Dyke
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• "Live deep instead of fast."
  By: Henry Seidel Canby
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• "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love."
  By: Henry Drummond
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• "The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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• "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
  By: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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• "What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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