"To have character is to be big enough to take life on."

Richards, Mary Caroline on character   

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

Monroe, Marilyn on   

"You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do."

Fonda, Jane on choice
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"Style is the image of character."

Gibbon, Edward on style   

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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities."

Seuss, Dr. on fantasy
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that."

Teresa of Avila, St. on courage
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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on life
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"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

Berenson, Bernard on life
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"All that man has will he give for his life."

Bible on life   

"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

Billings, Josh on life
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"It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them."

Booth, Evangeline Cory on life   

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."

Boulanger, Nadia on life
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"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."

Brooks, Phillips on life
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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"I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom."

Brown, Les on life
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"I think we're here for each other."

Burnett, Carol on life
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"Real life seems to have no plots."

Burnett, Ivy Compton on life   

"Life's but a day at most."

Burns, George on life
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it."

Basset, Lucinda on life
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
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"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."

Aleichem, Sholom on life
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on life
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"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on life
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"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger."

Anderson, Hans Christian on life
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."

Artaud, Antonin on life
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"Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence."

Augustine, St. on life
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now."

Baez, Joan on life
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"Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it."

Baluch, Joy on life
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"Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture."

Baker, Russell (Wayne) on life
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"You do not notice changes in what is always before you."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on change
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"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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