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«In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.»
«In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.»
«In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.»
Author: Alberto Moravia (Journalist, Novelist) | About: Life, Problems | Keywords: final result
«In life, as in chess, forethought wins.»
Author: Charles Buxton | About: Life | Keywords: chess, forethought
«In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.»
«In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.»
Author: Remy de Gourmont | About: Life, Understanding | Keywords: flocks
«In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.»
«In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | About: Art, Life | Keywords: curves
«In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: lifetimes, nine
«In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both!»
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo | About: Life