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Life

«If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.»
«If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
«If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.»
Author: John Burroughs (Essayist, Naturalist) | About: Books, Friends, Life, Nature | Keywords: The three
«If life were to be found on a planet, then it would also have been contaminated by original sin and would require salvation»
Author: Piero Coda | About: Life | Keywords: contaminate, contaminated, original sin
«If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.»
«If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.»
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo | About: Life | Keywords: invent, new one
«If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'»
«If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.»
«If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?»
Author: Erma Bombeck | About: Life | Keywords: bowl, bowled, pits, pitted, the pits
«If life deals you lemons made lemonade»
Author: Proverb | About: Life | Keywords: lemonade