“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”
— Samuel Smiles
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“My life needs editing.”
— Mort Sahl
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“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”
— Aristotle
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
— Victor Hugo
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“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
— Buddha
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
— Elie Wiesel
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“I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.”
— Muhammad Iqbal
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“To know nothing is the happiest life.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
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