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«We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.»
«We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.»
«We can search the world over, for peace, for love, and honor. We can look from now to eternity, for all we do not own. We can search until life is ending, then when life is nearly ore. We find we had what we needed, only now, its too hard to bear.»
Author: Donald D. Campbell | About: Eternity, Honor, Life, Love, Peace, World | Keywords: ending, ore, ores
«We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.»
«We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life.»
Author: Sara Paddison | About: Family, Life | Keywords: puzzle, puzzles, puzzling, unfolding
«We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.»
Author: William Osler (Physician) | About: Life
«We are more than what we do . . . much more than what we accomplish . . . far more than what we possess.»
Author: William Arthur Ward | About: Life | Keywords: accomplish, possess
«We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.»
«We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are»
«We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend»