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Letter "L" » Life
«What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.»
«What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.»
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
| About:
Life
«What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams»
Author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
| About:
Dreams,
Life
| Keywords:
for all, good story, illusion, shadow, story
«What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty»
Author: Shinichi Suzuki
| About:
Life
«What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.»
«What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.»
«What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Life,
The Present
| Keywords:
build, building up, build in, comes, Creation, from, mind, Only Yesterday, present, The Creation, thoughts, today, tomorrow, yesterday
«What we want is some sort of communism not based on wages, nor profits, nor any sort of buying and selling but on a religion of life.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
buying, buying and selling, profits
«What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
instincts, obedience, opposition, oppositions, peculiar, strives, supernatural, supernatural being
«What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Motives
| Keywords:
dreary, motive
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