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«There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.»
«There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.»
Author: Finn Taylor | About: Life | Keywords: rules, small stuff, stuff, sweat
«There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.»
Author: Federico Fellini (Film Director) | About: Life, Passion | Keywords: no end, The Passion
«There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.»
«There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life»
«There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.»
«There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Boys, Life | Keywords: constructed, dig, raging, rightly
«There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Life, Rules | Keywords: general rule, more or less
«There is nothing like a dream to create the future.»
«There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?»