Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster
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E.M. FORSTER I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an ...
E.M. FORSTER Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.
SHANNON L. ALDER To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel th...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Be strong and courageous to take risks.
Without trying and taking risks, you will miss great op...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
SARAH DESSEN Life never ceases to amaze me
STEVEN MONACO Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
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
LIFE REACTIONS One day you will find "the one" who deserves all what you want to give. The one who appreciates your...
ROSE'S LIFE If it doesn't open, it's not your door
LIFE ADVANCER Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt
HENRIK IBSEN Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people la...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people l...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it
ceases to be serious when people l...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w...
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in th...
DAMON GALGUT We believe you're either cool early in life or later in life, and it's much better to be cool later ...
ROBERT STEPHENS We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive a...
JEREMY CLARKSON Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
ANAïS NIN You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to ge...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people la...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Life is simple, You can choose to either live it or leave it.
ABHILASH NAIR Life is to be entered upon with courage.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.
ANAIS NIN To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS ...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
DAVE MATTHES life is either adventure or nothing...!!
NEYHA SAHU The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER MEMO:
M- Make
E- Every
M- Minute
O- Outstanding
Let Every Second Count In Y...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There's a way,
a way way too long but reachable,
not for everyone a way but possible... ...
ROSSANA CONDOLEO one work to either earn money or to justify life
ANDREW ROBER Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
LLOYD DOBENS When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be ...
C. E. COGHILL When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The best ideas stem from living life - loving life - to which some do neither, either or -
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
JOHN CHEEVER Do anything, save to lie down and die!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE “Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot b...
ASHISH KUMAR Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be c...
MAYA ANGELOU There is no way to counterfeit courage; we either have it or we do not
T.F. HODGE I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the ...
DARIO FO Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
ANTHONY ROBBINS Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
HELEN KELLER In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
TONY ROBBINS Life. You either live with or live without.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Life is either a grand adventure or nothing.
HELEN KELLER It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life...
CORAZON AQUINO All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
E. RUTHERFORD When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - liv...
JOHN CARPENTER Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it ...
RICHARD HALVERSON Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to rede...
WALTER KAUFMANN The simplicity of life never ceases to amaze me, and the many ways we complicate it blows my mind.
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM You have to be smart about how you use e-mail. Otherwise you let it ruin your life.
DAVID STROM A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about th...
MELIKA DANNESE LUX Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.
DENIS DE ROUGEMONT Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
JAMES A. AUTRY Where increase of life ceases, dissolution and death set in at once.
WALLACE D. WATTLES Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS The journey in life is either silence or opportunity
RAYMOND OBENG Man without life companion is either god or beast.
VIKRAM SETH Life is like Chemistry. There are elements- external & internal, whose absence or presence, either i...
ADIL BAMANBEHRAM What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
VINCENT VAN GOGH It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our ...
CORAZON AQUINO Let it be then let it go.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or...
ANTHONY BURGESS Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
LEONARDO DA VINCI Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
LEONARDO DAVINCI It was the worst thing I ever saw. It was either his leg or his life.
HOPE TRENT It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...
HORACE There is nothing like menial jobs in life,for any job that entails service to humanity,is a great jo...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
HELEN KELLER Life is beautiful...it's either your perspective or your shades.
ANUROOP TYAGI Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
NICOLE RICHIE 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
HUGH WALPOLE, SR.
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E. M. FORSTER Only connect.
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E. M. FORSTER Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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E. M. FORSTER Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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E. M. FORSTER Reverence is fatal to literature.
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E. M. FORSTER No one is India.
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E. M. FORSTER I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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E. M. FORSTER The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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E. M. CIORAN The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
E. M. CIORAN If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
E. M. CIORAN The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'
E. M. KELLY One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and n...
E. M. CIORAN Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people...
E. M. CIORAN A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its se...
E. M. CIORAN Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther...
E. M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
E. M. CIORAN A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals h...
E. M. CIORAN Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will...
E. M. BOUNDS Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations ...
E. M. CIORAN Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
E. M. CIORAN To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
E. M. CIORAN Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain...
E. M. CIORAN A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
E. M. CIORAN God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
E. M. CIORAN Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaus...
E. M. CIORAN What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striv...
E. M. CIORAN Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
E. M. CIORAN When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances,...
E. M. CIORAN It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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E. M. CIORAN Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not fi...
E. M. CIORAN Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ours...
E. M. CIORAN Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- ...
E. M. CIORAN What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
E. M. CIORAN Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
E. M. CIORAN Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demo...
E. M. CIORAN Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
E. M. CIORAN No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are ...
E. M. CIORAN We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
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E. M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
E. M. CIORAN Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
E. M. CIORAN To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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E. M. BOUNDS Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of pr...
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E. M. BOUNDS Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
E. M. CIORAN There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
E. M. CIORAN