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Life

«Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work»
«Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.»
«Life is never easy for those who dream.»
Author: Robert James Waller | About: Dreams, Life | Keywords: dream, easy
«Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: cards, holding, playing
«Life is not an exact science, it is an art.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Art, Life | Keywords: exact
«Life is not all about sex. [Samantha]»
Author: Sex and the City (TV series) | About: Life | Keywords: Samantha
«Life is nothing without friendship.»
«Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: fair, fairs, Good Thing, perhaps
«Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil»
Author: Seneca | About: Evil, Life | Keywords: field, for good
«Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.»
Author: Wayne Dyer (Author, Speaker) | About: Life | Keywords: bored, boring