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Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.


Susan Cheever

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ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE sometimes you feel blessed but other times you feel stressed
LIFE REACTIONS If everyone falls down no one will be there to pick us up, therefore don't try to pull others down w...
LIFE REACTIONS Don't just stress, but so something about it
LIFE REACTIONS Humans are selfish, so don't expect anything from them. Provide yourself with everything
LIFE REACTIONS Love is like a hole, the more you love someone the deeper it gets
LIFE REACTIONS Always be yourself, and never a reflection of others
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ROSE'S LIFE If it doesn't open, it's not your door
LIFE ADVANCER Romanes eunt domus
LIFE OF BRIAN I didn't change, I just found myself.
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“In a slum somewhere in India
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THE SCHOOL OF LIFE The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is ...
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. SACHS Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A SACHS Death is more universal than life. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.
ANDREW SACHS Everyone lives by different life code... my life code was the odd one.
DEYTH BANGER Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
ALBERT CAMUS Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
RICHARD SCHANBERGER Life is more than just chess.
Though king dies, life goes on.
TOBA BETA Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.
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ROSA M. BETANCES I look at life through different eyes than I did a few years ago.
KEVIN FEDERLINE Don't go through life, grow through life.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH What is life?
Life is living in this moment,
experiencing and experimenting
but ex...
KAMAND KOJOURI The camera did not take good photographs.
BIJU KARAKKONAM NATURE AND WILD LIFE PHOTOGRAPHER In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
JOHN MASEFIELD The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
ALBERT EINSTEIN We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which inc...
JOYCE MEYER A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.
AMIT KALANTRI When Life Gives You Lemons you tell life to Get a Life because lemons are a terrible gift.
PATRICK SCHELL Don't walk through life with your eyes closed.
ERIC JOHNSON Don't go through life, grow through life.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead
PETE WENTZ For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
WILLIAM BLAKE For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life
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WENDY MASS Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness...
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
BEN OKRI Everybody complains about life...But nobody wanna give up on life
FLAMESTARTA Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
ASHTON KUTCHER Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
PROVERB Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
FRENCH PROVERB Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.
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ISABEL YOSITO A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.
ORSON SCOTT CARD God does not give us overcoming life— He gives us life as we overcome.
OSWALD CHAMBERS Life was very different when you walked through it.
RACHEL JOYCE There are so many lenses through which we look at life. There are so many lenses through which we pe...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH LIFE HAS DIFFERENT MEANINGS TO US ALL BUT WHAT MATTERS MOST IS THAT YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE WITHOUT HYPOC...
PROSPER NWONYE Life Begins but Life does End. Life can win, But life can Bend. Life can give and life can Take. Lif...
ARRAN BRUCE DONALD Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.
VLADIMIR PUTIN The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.
JOHN SHIMKUS When life gives you lemons, sell them and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101.
DAVIN TURNEY To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two comple...
ERALDO BANOVAC Wasting is part of her life. She wasted her life, wasted my son's life and would keep on wasting liv...
JOSEPH WILLIAMS Nobody dies a virgin... Life fucks us all.
KURT COBAIN Nobody dies a virgin...Life fucks us all.
KURT COBAIN Fill your life with many different experiences and you'll live a Rich and Happy Life.
LORRIN L. LEE Through pain came the breathe of life through pain went the breathe of life.
SIBU CHANZA Through pain cames the breathe of life through pain goes the breathe of life.
SIBU CHANZA Everyone looks forward to rehearsal night as different from the rest of life.
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LUPYTHA HERMIN Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.
JOHN GREEN There is a similarity between life and school. At school, you are taught a lesson and then given a t...
VIMAL JOSEPH JAMES Dedicate yourself to what gives your life true meaning and purpose; make a positive difference in so...
ROY T. BENNETT Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space. Its u...
UNKNOWN Once upon a time, you were the hottest in my eyes. The most handsome in my life but now everything d...
HENANNIE ZARAGOZA I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things.
HEIDI KLUM Life gives us brief moments with another...but sometimes in those brief moment we get memories that ...
BECKY ALIGADA I believe that if life gives you challenges. you should make a life strategies... And try to find so...
GIBSON MPOLWENI Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh wo...
THOMAS KYD Buddha gives me the strength to bring my words to life and he gives me the strength to share my love...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICK I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
d...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with...
PAUL CASTELLANO We can be the managers of our lives.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Don’t leave your life behind as you live life! You have a true life to live! Live life and learn l...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH #LateNightMusings: No one dies virgin, life screws us all.
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CATHY GUISEWITE There is a ray within each life, which radiated through the eyes.
TOBA BETA A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.
RICK WARREN Life is not fair, but life is not fair for everyone. That makes life fair.
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ALBERT SCHWEITZER Death gives life its fullest reality.
ANTHONY DALLA VILLA Bless God who gives you life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Death lives longer than life.
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SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists...
SUSAN SONTAG Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
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