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Quote 3166
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3155
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3154
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3152
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3149
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3147
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3140
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3134
Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3131
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3130
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3128
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3119
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognitionby: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3118
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3106
Life is a predicament which precedes death.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3087
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractionsby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3074
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spendingby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3068
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surfaceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3054
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3053
Every generation needs regenerationShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3051
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3050
He that deserves nothing should be content with anythingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3041
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and spaceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3037
It is not well to make great changes in old ageShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3028
When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad onesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3022
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is natureby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3015
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3003
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived itby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3001
Life is a struggle, but not a warfareby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2998
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend itby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2981
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hivesby: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2974
The world loves a spice of wickednessShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2971
All are architects of fate, working in these walls of timeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2969
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2968
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing serviceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2964
Youth comes but once in a lifetimeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2962
The human voice is the organ of the soulShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2960
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than todayShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2959
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overheadShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2949
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2937
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyedby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2932
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no timeby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2924
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of itby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2916
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of goodby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2902
Some people read because they are too lazy to thinkShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2898
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye onShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2882
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitfulShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2879
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemploymentShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2868
I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same stateShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2864
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last returnShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2853
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from themShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2829
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me lessby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2818
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2798
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of historyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2796
Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by dayShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2776
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something newby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2775
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2761
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our toolsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2757
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2756
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the formerby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2754
Remember that lost time does not return.by: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2745
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourseby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2744
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of manby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2743
Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleepby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2742
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishnessby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2720
A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this worldby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2718
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbishby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2707
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated itby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2698
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only musicby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2692
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2689
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the riskShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2687
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2683
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of lifeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2679
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic, if it is pulled out I shall dieShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2675
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becomingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2667
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its oppositeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2662
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2660
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2657
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2656
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedomShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2641
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2628
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2627
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2623
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a travelerby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2617
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2616
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting thingsby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2609
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the worldShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2605
I am not the least afraid to dieShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2603
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reasonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2600
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to changeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2597
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selectionShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2596
We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existenceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2594
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2580
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reasonby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2575
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentionsby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2563
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravityShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2545
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2541
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they actShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2540
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are livingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2536
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2533
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything elseShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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