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«I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.»
Author: Chavela Vargas | About: Life, Men and Women | Keywords: old woman
«I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness?»
«I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.»
Author: Lucy Lawless | About: Life, Meaning | Keywords: indicate, satisfactory
«I am not going to fight against death but for life.»
«I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.»
«It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.»
«It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | About: Life | Keywords: Old English, somber
«I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.»
«I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.»
«I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Life, Manners | Keywords: manner, unassuming