Life Quotes
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“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”
Quote by -William James
“Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.”
Quote by -William James
“No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.”
Quote by -William James
“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”
Quote by -William James
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
Quote by -William James
“If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”
Quote by -William James
“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
Quote by -William James
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Quote by -Douglas MacArthur
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Quote by -Douglas MacArthur
I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Quote by -Douglas MacArthur
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Quote by -Douglas MacArthur
“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”
Quote by -Emily Dickinson
“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”
Quote by -Emily Dickinson
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!
Quote by -Epictetus
Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.
Quote by -Epictetus
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
Quote by -Epictetus
Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
Quote by -Warren Buffet
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
Quote by -Warren Buffet
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it
Quote by -Warren Buffet
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
Quote by -Warren Buffet
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Quote by -Warren Buffet
We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
Quote by -Warren Buffet