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• From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Men, Thinking

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Years, Numbers

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• Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an age when our best blessings, youth and health, have already left us. When at last I that time has arrived, it surprises us in the midst of fresh desires; we have got no farther when we are attacked by a fever which kills us; if we had been cured, it would only have been to give us more time for other desires.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Blessing, Giving

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• Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!

  August Strindberg

  Life, Leaving, Meetings

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.242, Univ of California Press

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• What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Lying, Audacity, Problem

  "The The Ignatian Tradition". Book by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, 2009.

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• Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.

  E. M. Forster

  Pain, Book, Interesting

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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• I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Desire, Life Happiness

  1895 March banks. Candida, act 3.

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• Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Space, Silence

  C. S. Lewis, Aurand Harris (1985). “The Magician's Nephew”, p.21, Dramatic Publishing

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• Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

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• Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Horse, Opinion

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

  William John Locke

  Life, Humorous, Men

  William John Locke (1925). “Simon the Jester”, p.322, Library of Alexandria

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• The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

  William John Locke

  Life, Antidote, Remedy

  William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC

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• Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

  William John Locke

  Life, Games, Common Sense

  William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

  William John Locke

  Fall, Police, Black

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.135, tredition

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• The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

  James Anthony Froude

  Simple, Stories, Moral

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.3

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• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Old Friends, Tears

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.34

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• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.

  James Anthony Froude

  Struggle, Son, Reality

  James Anthony Froude (1903). “The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland”

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• I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Thinking, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.78

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• Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

  Edgar Guest

  Life, Sweet, Cocktails

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• My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

  Anais Nin

  Needs

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Soul, Prison

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.344

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• If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  God, Believe, Purpose

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• People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Philosophy, Selfish, Struggle

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 8), 1949.

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• With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Mistake, Women

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.111

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• Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Happiness, Beautiful, Summer

  Hans Christian Andersen (2013). “The True Story of My Life”, p.143, Lulu Press, Inc

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