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«Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.»
«Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this»
Author: Henry Ford | About: Experience, Life | Keywords: experiences, series
«Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset | About: Life | Keywords: collisions, series, yearn
«Life is a predicament which precedes death»
Author: Henry James | About: Life | Keywords: precedes, predicament
«Life is a school of probability»
Author: Walter Bagehot (Analyst, Economist, Editor) | About: Life | Keywords: probability, School of
«Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.»
«Life is a series of dogs»
Author: George Carlin (Actor, Author, Comedian) | About: Life | Keywords: dogs, series
«Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite obje»
«Life is a progress, and not a station.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Life, Progress | Keywords: station
«Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.»