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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body.

Mahatma Gandhi

Friendship is the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure

Edward Young

To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.

Proverb

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Anthony Burgess

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

Jonathan Mayhew

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

Elbert Hubbard

Man has lost one quality, the quality of zestfulness. And without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else.

Osho

Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

James G. Bilkey

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.

Vijay Krishna

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Henry Miller

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Phillips Brooks

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life

Cyril Connolly

“Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.”

Elmer Davis

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In my opinion, a life governed by reason is likely to be more dignified than one shaped by dogma and unbridled emotions.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Mark Twain

The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams.

Julian Casablancas

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

Thomas Friedman

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