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Life

«I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.»
«I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty»
Author: Ellen Sturgis Hooper | About: Life | Keywords: sleeping beauty, woke
«I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.»
«I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.»
«I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.»
«I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.»
Author: Walter F. Mondale (Lawyer, Politician, Vice President) | About: Life | Keywords: inns
«I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.»
«I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived»
«I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Life | Keywords: diverge, diverged, I i, less-traveled, roads, sigh, traveled
«I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Life, Travel | Keywords: abroad, borrow, traveling