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Life
«If we have freedom, we have life. Therefore to live, we must love our fellow man, or all will live with the chains of strife.»
«If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.»
Author: Doug Larson
| About:
Life,
Sports
| Keywords:
concentrated, fishing, fishing pole, poles, shortage
«If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.»
Author: Robert Fulghum
| About:
Life,
Optimism
| Keywords:
inconvenience, inconvenienced, neck, necking, on fire
«If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.»
Author: Tori Amos
(Singer)
| About:
Life,
Music
| Keywords:
a bit, danced, giggle, giggled, giggles, life force, physical force, primitive, rhythm, rhythm and
«If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Sin
| Keywords:
despairing, elude, eluded, eludes, eluding, grandeur, hoping, implacable, This Life
«If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
disguised, filthy, irreverence, slough
«If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Belief,
Life
| Keywords:
dissonance, everlasting, hold out, Old World
«If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches»
«If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.»