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Letter "L" » Life
«The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn»
Author: David Russell
(Guitarist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
bridge, bridged, bridge over, Bridge The, bridging, burn, burned at, burning in, burn in, burn out, burn up, cross, crossing over, Crossing the, cross out, hardest, know, thing
«The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves»
Author: Newton Diehl Baker
| About:
Education,
Life,
Men
| Keywords:
educated, inquired, inquires, inquiring, investigated, investigates, investigating, uneducated
«The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Kissing,
Life,
Smile
| Keywords:
charities, compliment, countless, fractions, genial, made-up, pleasurable
«The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.»
«The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.»
«The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, spend, The Great
«The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
discharge
«The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Happiness,
Labor,
Life
| Keywords:
in labor
«The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Nature,
Quality,
Thought,
Virtue
| Keywords:
accordingly, entertain, guard, notions, reasonable, take care, unsuitable
«The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Life
| Keywords:
charities, fractions, heartfelt
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