#life

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary. ↗

— Ed Harris

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There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#arise #best #equipped #go #goes

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. ↗

— George Eliot

#simplicity #life

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death. ↗

— Jean Harris

#die #had #i #led #life

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time. ↗

— Julie Harris

#being #job #life #lot #place

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#been #comforts #currency #high #history

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?' ↗

— Sydney Harris

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People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#friends #life #life