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Life

«Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.»
«Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.»
Author: Margot Fonteyn (Dancer) | About: Life | Keywords: offstage
«Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.»
«Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.»
Author: Katherine Mansfield (Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: marvel, marveling
«Life must be lived as play.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Life | Keywords: lived, play
«Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.»
«Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Life | Keywords: fresh start, presents, starting, termination
«Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.»
«Life should be like the precious metals, weigh much in little bulk»
Author: Seneca | About: Life | Keywords: bulk, bulked, metals, precious metal, precious metals, weigh
«Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | About: Life | Keywords: backwards