Long Life Quotes - Page 13

• I'm healthy as can be - not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

  Joel Osteen

  Prayer, Pain, Long

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• It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Meaningful, Differences, Long

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• One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Long, Events, Should

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.276, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Kissing, Happy Valentines Day

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• He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

  Isaac Asimov

  Reading, Book, Men

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• Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Long, Want, Difficult Days

  Speech in Memphis, 3 Apr. 1968 (the day before King was assassinated), in New York Times 4 Apr. 1968, p. 24

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• My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

  Nick Cassavetes

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

  Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. February 14, 2002.

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• I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

  Rick Riordan

  Teaching, Writing, Long

  "Cover reveal: Rick Riordan's heroes meet in 'The Son of Sobek'". Interview with Lindsay Deutsch, www.usatoday.com. May 7, 2013.

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• with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Long, Lines

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Burton Pike (2008). “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”, p.13, Dalkey Archive Press

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• We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

  Aldo Leopold

  Long, Safety, Comfort

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.164, Library of America

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• To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Block, Dark, Long

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Anniversary, Romantic

  Dormer Creston, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1943). “Andromeda in Wimpole Street: the love story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning told in their letters”

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• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.

  Joshua Foer

  Exercise, Long, One Day

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin

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• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.404, Princeton University Press

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• My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Father, Long, Would Be

  Interview with Michael Silverblatt, stephengreenblatt.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Love me little, love me long.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Life, Long, Littles

  Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.305, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Education, Moving

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• I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Men, Long

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 14 September 1773

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• Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.

  Laozi

  Sight, Doors, Long

  Laozi (1905). “The Simple Way”

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• So that my life be brave, what though not long?

  William Drummond

  Life, Long, Brave

  William Drummond (1856). “The poetical works ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.17

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• Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Courage, Hurt

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• Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.
  You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.

  Will Durant

  Life, Jesus, Attitude

  "Durants on History from the Ages, with Love". Pam Proctor, Parade Magazine, August 6, 1978.

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• You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
  Pray love me little, so you love me long.

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Life, Strong

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.97

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  Walter Lippmann

  Air, Space, Long

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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