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Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. – Swami Sivanada
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied. – Spider-Man
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. – Winston Churchill
Although the protesters in Egypt and neighboring countries are calling for democratic reforms, in reality they are calling for better economic life. Democracy is only a means to an end. I believe the driving forces behind the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings are economical. A chronic high unemployment combined with an inflation in food prices is a volatile mix that can lead to major civic outbursts. – Med Jones
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. – Henri Frdric Amiel
We learn not in the school, but in life. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be. – Pink Floyd
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. – Rabindranath Tagore
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. – Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. – Amelia Earhart
I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. – Mignon McLaughlin
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs. – Euripedes, Medea
Life is a dead-end street. – Henry Louis Mencken
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to. – Roger Zelazny
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people. – Zig Ziglar
Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans. – Betty Talmadge
My life needs a rewinderase button. - Calvin – Bill Watterson
The direction of a man's thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind. – Erich Sauer
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – Victor Hugo
To be, or not to be that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep perchance to dream ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. – William Shakespeare
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. – Gaius Petronius
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes. – Unknown
Life is all about detecting and then avoiding bullshit. – Michael Powell
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth

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