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«Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.»
«The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.»
«The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.»
Author: Natalie Kocsis | About: Life, World | Keywords: playground, playgrounds, pushing, swing
«The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence»
«Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record»
«The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point : This can be done.»
«The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Humanity, Life | Keywords: badly, cast, stage, the play
«The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose»
«The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.»
Author: Thomas Merton | About: Life | Keywords: contradictions, mercy, signs
«The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.»