#life

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. ↗

— James Buchan

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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ↗

— John Buchan

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. ↗

— Betty Buckley

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning. ↗

— Young Buck

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It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#mutism #quiet #silence #life

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love? ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#love #quotable #quotes-on-life #sacrifice #value