Life Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about life.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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Only by obeying it does one subdue nature.

Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

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Try to leave this world a little better than you found it.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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The greatest wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight of them while pursuing them.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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What is considered blindness of fate is actually one's own myopia.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One might think that misfortune will eventually tire of striking, but then it is time that becomes our misfortune.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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Clocks kill time. Time is dead as long as it is being marked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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We all fail to achieve our dreams of perfection, so we grade ourselves based on our splendid failure in trying to achieve the impossible.

Frederick II

Frederick II

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Anyone can have knowledge, but the art of thinking is nature's rarest gift.

Frederick II

Frederick II

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No situation is so serious that it cannot get worse.

Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only an endless passion for life.

Fénelon

Fénelon

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Suffering depends not so much on what is suffered as on our imagination, which magnifies our afflictions.

Fénelon

Fénelon

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He who has not suffered knows nothing; he knows neither good nor evil; he knows neither men nor himself.