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Life

«Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.»
«Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.»
«Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.»
«Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.»
«Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.»
Author: Peter McWilliams | About: Life | Keywords: wiggle
«Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings»
«Life is not a problem - Life is the closest God has yet come to a solution»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant (Author, Cartoonist) | About: Life | Keywords: solution
«Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.»
«Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.»
«Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: gig, lamps, luminous, symmetrically