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«It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.»
«I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself.»
«It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.»
«It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Choice,
Death and dying,
Living,
Pleasure,
Thought
| Keywords:
courses
«It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.»
«It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.»
«I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Death and dying,
Living,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conceive, live-and-die, species
«It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known»
Author: John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester)
(Poet)
| About:
Living,
World
| Keywords:
beg, the very worst
«It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die»
«It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Living,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
beforehand, one hour, risking, uncertified
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