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Tag Archives: Quotes about Life
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”
-Bryan White
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
-Albert Camus
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
-John W. Gardner
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Posted in A Right of Passage
Tagged John W. Gardner, John W. Gardner Quotes, Life Quotes, Quotes about Life
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“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
-William Feather
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“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
-David Sarnoff
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“Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, you’ve got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.”
-Mel Brooks
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Posted in Laughter is Medicine
Tagged Famous Quotes, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks Quotes, Quotes about Life
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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
-Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
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“Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.”
-Howard Zinn
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
-Douglas Adams
“Stop worrying about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
-Charles M. Schulz
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“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
-William Faulkner
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
-Author Unknown
Posted in A Right of Passage
Tagged Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes, Quotes about Life
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
-Havelock Ellis
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Tagged Havelock Ellis, Havelock Ellis Quotes, Quotes about Life
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“I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.”
-George Burns
“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”
-Woody Allen