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«Life: a cycle. A series of events, meetings, and departures. Friends discovered, others lost, Precious time, wastes away. Big droplet tears are shed for yesterday, but are dried in time for tomorrow, until all that remain are foggy, broken memories of a happy yesteryear.»
«Life began as a mystery and will end as a mystery, but what an exciting and wonderful time it is in between.»
Author: Diane Ackermann | About: Life
«Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.»
«Life gets better when you embrace your geekiness»
Author: Rose McGowan | About: Life
«Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, 'over steep ways to the stars,' fulfills self.»
«Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.»
Author: Anton Chekhov | About: Life | Keywords: agree, idleness, philosophy, pleasurable, useless
«Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.»
«Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.»
«Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.»
Author: Erica Jong | About: Life
«Life as we find it, is too hard for us: it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it, we cannot dispense with palliative measures?There are three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitute satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances which make us insensitive to it.»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Life