Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.
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Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.
A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf
Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Cause my life is dope, and I do dope sh*t
All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.
Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.
Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.
Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate.
If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?
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