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«The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.»
Author: Bob Lemon | About: Life | Keywords: bullpen
«The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: length
«The unexamined life is not worth living.»
«The true object of all human life is play.»
«The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Life
«The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.»
«The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.»
«The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.»
«The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.»
«The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long»