Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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All human activity is motivated by desire or impulse.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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The prudent man only thinks about his difficulties when it serves a purpose. When it doesn't, he thinks about something else.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place. We move forward, stop, and even go backward according to its orders. Our mistake is to imagine that we can outsmart it.

José Saramago

José Saramago

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Time is not a rope that can be measured knot by knot, time is an oblique and undulating surface that only memory is capable of making move and approach.

Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre

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Every word has consequences, every silence does too.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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You pick up a dog that is starving, you feed it and it won't bite you. That is the most notable difference between a dog and a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Never despair, even in the darkest afflictions, for from black clouds falls clean and fecundating water.

Juan Valera

Juan Valera

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The universe, with all its splendor and beauty, is chaos for the man without faith.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Hope is a Christian virtue that consists of despising all the wretched things of this world in anticipation of enjoying, in an unknown country, unknown delights that the priests promise us in exchange for our money.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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The one who is afraid of poverty is not worthy of being rich.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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The way a person takes control of their destiny is more determining than the destiny itself.

Pittacus of Mytilene

Pittacus of Mytilene

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If you want to know a man, give him great power.