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Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.


Blaise Pascal

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E. LOCKHART We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are always getting ready to live, but never living
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are always beginning to live, but are never living
MARCUS MANILIUS We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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DEYTH BANGER Normally, we're never satisfied.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
IMMANUEL HERMANN FICHTE Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are n...
HARRY CHAPIN We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
CHE GUAVARA Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
IMMANUEL HERMASS VON FICHTE If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
WINNIE THE POOH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
JOHN IRVING If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
JOHANN G. FICHTE I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never ...
ELIZABETH STROUT Never ever let your hope and faith in God die. Keep hoping until hope dies; remember, however, that ...
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DRAGOS BRATASANU We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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ITALO CALVINO The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
DOROTHY DIX We live in blatantly corrupt times.
STEVEN MAGEE Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
BLAISE PASCAL We all want to live a happy life, so we have to learn to live together in trust and mutual respect.
AULIQ-ICE We all want to live a happy life, so we have to learn to live together in trust and mutual respect.
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SANDY STRICKLAND We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live wit...
SENECA We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So ...
ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live.
EYDIE GORME It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL The sky has never been limit. We have our own limits. It is then about breaking our personal limit a...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children ne...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter word...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter word...
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FEMALE IMAGINATION It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
IMMANUEL KANT Most things that people give us we're never really happy with, so most of the time we do everything ...
JOSH WILLS Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
FRANCIS CHAN We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. B...
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LIAN HEARN The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.
BRENNAN MANNING I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.
KATE MIDDLETON When we let our Greed become our Need, we can never be happy indeed!-RVM
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PHILIP T. M. Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...
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ALICE COOPER That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
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ALAN PERLIS Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know...
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NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL The oldest hath borne most: we that are young,Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
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EMILE JOBITY We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
MAX DE PREE We live for life, but not for ourselves
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JIMMY CARTER We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
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THOMAS MANN However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
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BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu...
BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.
BLAISE PASCAL Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed
BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction
BLAISE PASCAL The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
BLAISE PASCAL The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosp...
BLAISE PASCAL Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convin...
BLAISE PASCAL It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out...
BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
BLAISE PASCAL We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug...
BLAISE PASCAL