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«One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.»
«Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.»
Author: Jimmy Buffett (Singer, Songwriter) | About: Life, Wisdom | Keywords: voices, wiser
«One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.»
Author: Joan of Arc | About: Belief, Courage, Faith, Life
«Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.»
«Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.»
«One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht | About: Life
«...One loves the sunset when one is sad...»
«Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Rumania»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | About: Life, Love, Songs | Keywords: cycle, go wrong, Rumania
«Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life»
«Oh that those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: roughly