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• The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

  Gerd de Ley

  Long, Boredom, Way To Live

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• If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Meaningful, Pursuit Of Happiness, Happy Times

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• So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Eye, Men

  Sonnet 18

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• A long life is a life well spent.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Long, Wells

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

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• I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Long, Excellent

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 2, l. [34]

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• What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

  Aristophanes

  Life, Long, Happens

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Vanity, Long

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Impact, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 06, 2016

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• Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

  Confucius

  Intelligent, Giving, Justice

  Confucius, Mencius, 左丘明 (1971). “The Chinese classics with a translation, critical and exegetical notes: prolegomena and copious indexes”

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• Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!

  Thomas a Kempis

  Long, Age, Add

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• Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Stars, Long, Sometimes

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• We live in a society where we don't want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.

  Marilyn Yalom

  Long, People, Levels

  "Marilyn Yalom and the Language of Lovemarilyn Yalom and the Language of Love". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Long, Like You

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• The art is long, life is short

  Hippocrates

  Art, Short Life, Life Is Short

  Hippocrates (1923). “Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment”, Loeb Classical Library

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• In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy our world and its inhabitants, after only a brief appearance on the cosmic stage?

  Jill Tarter

  Technology, Our World, Long

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• The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

  Gordon Allport

  Dog, Offering, Long

  "A Psychological Interpretation". Book by Gordon Allport, p. 199, 1938.

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• In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

  Grace Paley

  Long, Rewards, Life Is

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Art, Love You

  Sonnet 18

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.

  William Harvey

  Men, Law, Long

  "The Works of William Harvey, M.D". Book by Robert Willis, "The Life of Harvey", 1847.

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• Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Death, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.97, Penguin

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• He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

  Max Stirner

  Doe, Littles, Enjoy

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.321, Courier Corporation

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• I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

  Ethan Suplee

  Happiness, Kids, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Loneliness, Home, Long

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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