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Letter "L" » Life
«When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!»
«When important issues affecting the life of an individual are decided by somebody else, it makes no difference to the individual whether that somebody else is a king, a dictator, or society at large»
Author: James Taggart
| About:
Individuality,
Life
| Keywords:
affecting, at large, dictator, individual differences
«When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover»
Author: Michael Drayton
| About:
Death and dying,
Faith,
Innocence,
Life
| Keywords:
closing, kneeling, recover
«When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.»
«When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.»
«When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. Yet, fooled by hope, men favour the deceit; trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: to-morrow's falser than the former day.»
«When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Dreams,
Life
| Keywords:
carefully, certainty, property, separates, The Dream, waking
«When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
Frustration,
Life,
People
| Keywords:
deep-seated, demand, demands, ordinarily, resentment, seated
«When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
gold medal, gold medals, I Tried, medals, transition, transitions
«When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook»
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