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The Key to Life
“Make your life a work of art.”
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#1
In 365 Quotes
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
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#2
The Key to Life
“What one can be, one must be.”
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#3
In 365 Quotes
“It's never too late to be what you might have been.”
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#4
The Key to Life
“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”
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#5
In 365 Quotes
“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”
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#6
The Key to Life
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
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#7
In 365 Quotes
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.”
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#8
The Key to Life
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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#9
In 365 Quotes
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty and truth.”
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#10
The Key to Life
“There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is; I've always been a fool.”
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#11
In 365 Quotes
“It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
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#12
The Key to Life
“Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
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#13
In 365 Quotes
“One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.”
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#14
The Key to Life
“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
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#15
In 365 Quotes
“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
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#16
The Key to Life
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
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#17
In 365 Quotes
“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
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#18
The Key to Life
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
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#19
In 365 Quotes
“A library is a hospital for the mind.”
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#20
The Key to Life
“Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.”
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#21
In 365 Quotes
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
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#22
The Key to Life
“We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.”
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#23
In 365 Quotes
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
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#24
The Key to Life
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
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#25
In 365 Quotes
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
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#26
The Key to Life
“A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
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#27
In 365 Quotes
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
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#28
The Key to Life
“The life of an individual is almost always tragic, but gone through in detail it has the characteristics of a comedy.”
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#29
In 365 Quotes
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
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#30
The Key to Life
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”
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#31
In 365 Quotes
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
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#32
The Key to Life
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.”
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#33
In 365 Quotes
“I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.”
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#34
The Key to Life
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
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#35
In 365 Quotes
“The truth is everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.”
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#36
The Key to Life
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
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#37
In 365 Quotes
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
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#38
The Key to Life
“My purpose, practically speaking: a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.”
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#39
In 365 Quotes
“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
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#40
The Key to Life
“The price of happiness is bondage, the price of freedom is loneliness.”
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#41
In 365 Quotes
“God is man's greatest idea.”
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#42
The Key to Life
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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#43
In 365 Quotes
“That which you most need will be found where you least want to look.”
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#44
The Key to Life
“The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
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#45
In 365 Quotes
“Without mistakes there would be no truth. If a man does not know what a thing is, at least he knows what it is not.”
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#46
The Key to Life
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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#47
In 365 Quotes
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
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#48
The Key to Life
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.”
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#49
In 365 Quotes
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
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#50
The Key to Life
“We must be engaged in the cultural battles – even when we grow weary – for truth is at stake in every arena, and eternal destinies hang in the balance.”
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#51
In 365 Quotes
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”
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#52
The Key to Life
“In the end, everything is showbiz.”
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#53
In 365 Quotes
“Things of quality have no fear of time.”
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#54
The Key to Life
“The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
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#55
In 365 Quotes
“The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.”
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#56
The Key to Life
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
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#57
In 365 Quotes
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
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#58
The Key to Life
“War creates peace like hate creates love.”
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#59
In 365 Quotes
“Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.”
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#60
The Key to Life
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.”
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#61
In 365 Quotes
“There are only 3 things in the universe: the known-knowns, the known-unknowns, and the unknown-unknowns. What we know, what we don't know, and what we don't know we don't know.”
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#62
The Key to Life
“How did it get so late so soon?”
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#63
In 365 Quotes
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
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#64
The Key to Life
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
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#65
In 365 Quotes
“Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?”
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#66
The Key to Life
“Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.”
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#67
In 365 Quotes
“If true confessions are written with tears, then my tears would drown the world, as the fire in my soul would reduce it to ashes.”
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#68
The Key to Life
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
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#69
In 365 Quotes
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
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#70
The Key to Life
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
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#71
In 365 Quotes
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
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#72
The Key to Life
“For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
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#73
In 365 Quotes
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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#74
The Key to Life
“I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”
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#75
In 365 Quotes
“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
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#76
The Key to Life
“I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
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#77
In 365 Quotes
“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
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#78
The Key to Life
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
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#79
In 365 Quotes
“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
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#80
The Key to Life
“Knowledge is power.”
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#81
In 365 Quotes
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.”
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#82
The Key to Life
“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”
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#83
In 365 Quotes
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
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#84
The Key to Life
“A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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#85
In 365 Quotes
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
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#86
The Key to Life
“The bigger the better; in everything.”
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#87
In 365 Quotes
“A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.”
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#88
The Key to Life
“It is only through staking one's life that freedom is won.”
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#89
In 365 Quotes
“Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.”
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#90
The Key to Life
“Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.”
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#91
In 365 Quotes
“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
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#92
The Key to Life
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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#93
In 365 Quotes
“In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke; that fact alone would invalidate any book.”
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#94
The Key to Life
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up til now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography.”
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#95
In 365 Quotes
“Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer's night.”
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#96
The Key to Life
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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#97
In 365 Quotes
“That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
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#98
The Key to Life
“There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself, how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.”
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#99
In 365 Quotes
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#100
The Key to Life
“Beauty will save the world.”
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#101
In 365 Quotes
“Every man is not only responsible for what he does but what everyone else does.”
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#102
The Key to Life
“If we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
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#103
In 365 Quotes
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
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#104
The Key to Life
“Everyone gets a vote, even the people of the past, we call that tradition.”
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#105
In 365 Quotes
“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist, fairy tales tell children the dragons can be defeated.”
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#106
The Key to Life
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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#107
In 365 Quotes
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembered that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
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#108
The Key to Life
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
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#109
In 365 Quotes
“Better late than never.”
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#110
The Key to Life
“Time and tide wait for no man.”
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#111
In 365 Quotes
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
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#112
The Key to Life
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”
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#113
In 365 Quotes
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
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#114
The Key to Life
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
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#115
In 365 Quotes
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
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#116
The Key to Life
“There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.”
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#117
In 365 Quotes
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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#118
The Key to Life
“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
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#119
In 365 Quotes
“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”
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#120
The Key to Life
“It's not about winning or losing, but how you play the game.”
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#121
In 365 Quotes
“I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”
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#122
The Key to Life
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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#123
In 365 Quotes
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
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#124
The Key to Life
“The time your friends need you is when they're wrong.”
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#125
In 365 Quotes
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves; self-discipline with all of them came first.”
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#126
The Key to Life
“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
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#127
In 365 Quotes
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
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#128
The Key to Life
“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”
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#129
In 365 Quotes
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
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#130
The Key to Life
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
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#131
In 365 Quotes
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
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#132
The Key to Life
“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.”
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#133
In 365 Quotes
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
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#134
The Key to Life
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
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#135
In 365 Quotes
“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.”
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#136
The Key to Life
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
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#137
In 365 Quotes
“The measure of a society is how well it takes care of its weakest members.”
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#138
The Key to Life
“Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.”
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#139
In 365 Quotes
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
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#140
The Key to Life
“Society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
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#141
In 365 Quotes
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
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#142
The Key to Life
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”
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#143
In 365 Quotes
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore.”
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#144
The Key to Life
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
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#145
In 365 Quotes
“To every action, there is always an opposite and equal reaction.”
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#146
The Key to Life
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.”
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#147
In 365 Quotes
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”
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#148
The Key to Life
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
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#149
In 365 Quotes
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
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#150
The Key to Life
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
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#151
In 365 Quotes
“Then something woke up inside him and he wished to go and see the great mountains and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls and explore the caves and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
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#152
The Key to Life
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
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#153
In 365 Quotes
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
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#154
The Key to Life
“Left to our own devices, we will remake the entire world in our own image.”
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#155
In 365 Quotes
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
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#156
The Key to Life
“In choosing for myself I choose for all men.”
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#157
In 365 Quotes
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
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#158
The Key to Life
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of legislation.”
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#159
In 365 Quotes
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
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#160
The Key to Life
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”
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#161
In 365 Quotes
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
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#162
The Key to Life
“When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we help them become what they can be.”
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#163
In 365 Quotes
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
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#164
The Key to Life
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
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#165
In 365 Quotes
“All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
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#166
The Key to Life
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
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#167
In 365 Quotes
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
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#168
The Key to Life
“A cat may look at a king.”
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#169
In 365 Quotes
“A man may well bring a horse to water, but he cannot make him drink.”
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#170
The Key to Life
“Make hay while the sun shines.”
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#171
In 365 Quotes
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
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#172
The Key to Life
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
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#173
In 365 Quotes
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
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#174
The Key to Life
“The wonderful thing about a book is that once you close it, it's yours forever.”
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#175
In 365 Quotes
“I don't want the best for you. I want the best for what wants the best for you, because you don't know what you want. I'm not on the side of you that's aiming towards your defeat. I'm on the side that's struggling towards the light. And that's the definition of love.”
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#176
The Key to Life
“If you don't believe in God then you believe in nothing, and religious people will keep their gods, while you keep your nothing.”
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#177
In 365 Quotes
“If you fulfill your obligations every day, you don't have to worry about the future.”
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#178
The Key to Life
“Nihilism means that there is no meaning to anything, but the opposite is just as true, that there is meaning to everything.”
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#179
In 365 Quotes
“The line between order and chaos is where you will find the most meaning.”
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#180
The Key to Life
“It is a waste to ask, 'What is the meaning of life?' when you are the answer.”
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#181
In 365 Quotes
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
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#182
The Key to Life
“You are the hero of your own story.”
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#183
In 365 Quotes
“No matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”
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#184
The Key to Life
“From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”
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#185
In 365 Quotes
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
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#186
The Key to Life
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
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#187
In 365 Quotes
“And she was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
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#188
The Key to Life
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
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#189
In 365 Quotes
“What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?”
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#190
The Key to Life
“He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.”
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#191
In 365 Quotes
“The world belongs to those who let go.”
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#192
The Key to Life
“There are 3 types of leaders in this world: the leader that's loved; the leader that's hated; and the leader that people barely know he exists. When the work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
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#193
In 365 Quotes
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
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#194
The Key to Life
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to have it make some difference, that you have lived and lived well.”
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#195
In 365 Quotes
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
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#196
The Key to Life
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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#197
In 365 Quotes
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun. Yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
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#198
The Key to Life
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
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#199
In 365 Quotes
“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”
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#200
The Key to Life
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
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#201
In 365 Quotes
“The hero of my tale – whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will forever be beautiful – is truth.”
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#202
The Key to Life
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
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#203
In 365 Quotes
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
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#204
The Key to Life
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled.”
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#205
In 365 Quotes
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.”
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#206
The Key to Life
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
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#207
In 365 Quotes
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
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#208
The Key to Life
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
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#209
In 365 Quotes
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
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#210
The Key to Life
“No man is a hero to his debtors.”
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#211
In 365 Quotes
“All religions are different roads converging to the same point.”
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#212
The Key to Life
“Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.”
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#213
In 365 Quotes
“Just when everything seems lost; one has knocked on all doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years – and it opens.”
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#214
The Key to Life
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
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#215
In 365 Quotes
“The only possible paradises are those we have lost.”
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#216
The Key to Life
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess new eyes; to behold the universe through the eyes of another – of a hundred others – to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
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#217
In 365 Quotes
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.”
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#218
The Key to Life
“Unlike the earth, the sea is not separated from the sky; it radiates under the sun and seems to die with it every evening. And when the sun has vanished, the sea keeps longing for it, keeps preserving a bit of its luminous reminiscence in the face of the uniformly somber earth.”
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#219
In 365 Quotes
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
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#220
The Key to Life
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
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#221
In 365 Quotes
“The best revenge is to not be like your enemy.”
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#222
The Key to Life
“The impediment to action advances action; what stands in the way becomes the way.”
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#223
In 365 Quotes
“In the spring, at the end of the day, one should smell like dirt.”
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#224
The Key to Life
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
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#225
In 365 Quotes
“Even in the future, the story begins with once upon a time.”
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#226
The Key to Life
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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#227
In 365 Quotes
“The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
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#228
The Key to Life
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
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#229
In 365 Quotes
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything.”
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#230
The Key to Life
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
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#231
In 365 Quotes
“Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.”
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#232
The Key to Life
“Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.”
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#233
In 365 Quotes
“Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
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#234
The Key to Life
“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”
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#235
In 365 Quotes
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
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#236
The Key to Life
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.”
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#237
In 365 Quotes
“If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things.”
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#238
The Key to Life
“The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.”
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#239
In 365 Quotes
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
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#240
The Key to Life
“If you cannot decide, the answer is no.”
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#241
In 365 Quotes
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”
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#242
The Key to Life
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
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#243
In 365 Quotes
“How is it that we have so much information, but know so little?”
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#244
The Key to Life
“Propaganda system works because it recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies.”
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#245
In 365 Quotes
“Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.”
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#246
The Key to Life
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
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#247
In 365 Quotes
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
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#248
The Key to Life
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
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#249
In 365 Quotes
“Life imitates art.”
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#250
The Key to Life
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
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#251
In 365 Quotes
“To define is to limit.”
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#252
The Key to Life
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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#253
In 365 Quotes
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
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#254
The Key to Life
“Even though I'm no better than a beast, don't I, too, have a right to live?”
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#255
In 365 Quotes
“It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”
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#256
The Key to Life
“The world is changed by your example. Not your opinion.”
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#257
In 365 Quotes
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
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#258
The Key to Life
“Everything will leave us only after it has taught us the necessary lessons.”
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#259
In 365 Quotes
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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#260
The Key to Life
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
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#261
In 365 Quotes
“Man is the measure of all things.”
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#262
The Key to Life
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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#263
In 365 Quotes
“Don't be sorry, be different.”
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#264
The Key to Life
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
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#265
In 365 Quotes
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
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#266
The Key to Life
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now.”
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#267
In 365 Quotes
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
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#268
The Key to Life
“Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.”
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#269
In 365 Quotes
“Truth serves life.”
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#270
The Key to Life
“All the world loves a lover.”
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#271
In 365 Quotes
“People's opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
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#272
The Key to Life
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
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#273
In 365 Quotes
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
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#274
The Key to Life
“I think; therefore I am.”
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#275
In 365 Quotes
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
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#276
The Key to Life
“Science is the poetry of reality.”
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#277
In 365 Quotes
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
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#278
The Key to Life
“Less is more.”
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#279
In 365 Quotes
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
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#280
The Key to Life
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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#281
In 365 Quotes
“Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.”
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#282
The Key to Life
“Always say less than necessary.”
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#283
In 365 Quotes
“You have a responsibility to contribute to the culture and times you live in.”
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#284
The Key to Life
“Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.”
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#285
In 365 Quotes
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
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#286
The Key to Life
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
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#287
In 365 Quotes
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”
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#288
The Key to Life
“If a thing is not diminished by being shared, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”
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#289
In 365 Quotes
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
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#290
The Key to Life
“We manage to never really connect with the present moment and find fulfillment there, because we are continually hoping to become happy in the future. And the future never arrives.”
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#291
In 365 Quotes
“Every man's work is always a portrait of himself.”
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#292
The Key to Life
“Even while they teach, men learn.”
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#293
In 365 Quotes
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
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#294
The Key to Life
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
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#295
In 365 Quotes
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
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#296
The Key to Life
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
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#297
In 365 Quotes
“The problem for us is not whether our desires are satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
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#298
The Key to Life
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
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#299
In 365 Quotes
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
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#300
The Key to Life
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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#301
In 365 Quotes
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
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#302
The Key to Life
“And in that moment I swear we were infinite.”
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#303
In 365 Quotes
“Books are portable magic.”
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#304
The Key to Life
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”
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#305
In 365 Quotes
“Put things back into the stream of history as much as you can.”
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#306
The Key to Life
“It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
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#307
In 365 Quotes
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”
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#308
The Key to Life
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
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#309
In 365 Quotes
“Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve. Nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself.”
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#310
The Key to Life
“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.”
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#311
In 365 Quotes
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at where we started and know the place for the first time.”
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#312
The Key to Life
“What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Footsteps echo in the memory. Down the passage which we did not take. Towards the door we never opened. Into the rose-garden.”
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#313
In 365 Quotes
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
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#314
The Key to Life
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
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#315
In 365 Quotes
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
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#316
The Key to Life
“He who has no sin cast the first stone.”
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#317
In 365 Quotes
“Love your enemies.”
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#318
The Key to Life
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
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#319
In 365 Quotes
“The truth will set you free.”
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#320
The Key to Life
“Attachment is the root of suffering.”
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#321
In 365 Quotes
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
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#322
The Key to Life
“Remember me. I will remember you.”
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#323
In 365 Quotes
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
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#324
The Key to Life
“Ignorance is bliss.”
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#325
In 365 Quotes
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
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#326
The Key to Life
“Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
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#327
In 365 Quotes
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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#328
The Key to Life
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
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#329
In 365 Quotes
“The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.”
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#330
The Key to Life
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
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#331
In 365 Quotes
“A quote a day, keeps all troubles away.”
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#332
The Key to Life
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
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#333
In 365 Quotes
“Compassion is the idea that hell may need people like you.”
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#334
The Key to Life
“Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
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#335
In 365 Quotes
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
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#336
The Key to Life
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
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#337
In 365 Quotes
“Someone once told me the definition of hell: the last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”
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#338
The Key to Life
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.”
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#341
In 365 Quotes
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
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#342
The Key to Life
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”
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#343
In 365 Quotes
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing – the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
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#344
The Key to Life
“Man is that being who invented the gas chambers in Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer on his lips.”
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#345
In 365 Quotes
“Fortune favors the bold.”
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#346
The Key to Life
“Love conquers all.”
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#347
In 365 Quotes
“The noblest motive is the public good.”
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#348
The Key to Life
“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
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#349
In 365 Quotes
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”
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#350
The Key to Life
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, only in being superior to your former self.”
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#351
In 365 Quotes
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
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#352
The Key to Life
“What is poetry? To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
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#353
In 365 Quotes
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.”
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#354
The Key to Life
“There is no such thing as absolute truth, only what is true enough, to proceed.”
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#355
In 365 Quotes
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”
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#356
The Key to Life
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”
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#357
In 365 Quotes
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
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#358
The Key to Life
“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.”
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#359
In 365 Quotes
“What's new isn't true, what's true isn't new.”
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#360
The Key to Life
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.”
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#361
In 365 Quotes
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
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#362
The Key to Life
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
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#363
In 365 Quotes
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
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#364
The Key to Life
“Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.”