Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.


Santōka Taneda

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Life is a re-discovery.
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Life Is a Misconception.
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Life is a desire!
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Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA
Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
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His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
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Life is a school of probability.
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This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM
Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER
My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
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The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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LAUREN MYRACLE
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON
Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA
For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK
Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
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Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
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Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
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Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
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I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
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All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC
Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
DANNY MEYER
Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
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What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
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Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
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She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
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This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
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Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
NOLAN RYAN
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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I think life is a chain of events.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
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Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
CORITA KENT
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
KARRINE STEFFANS
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trill...
BEAH RICHARDS
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
'The Lunchbox' has been a blessing - all gift-wrapped and tied with a bow. Life is a lunchbo...
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What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
PETER HOOK
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go...
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As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi...
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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
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The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth...
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Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
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My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL
Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
CILLA BLACK
My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often...
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Beautiful things happen in your life,if you distance yourself from all the negative things.
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When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start ...
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She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
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We Are All Infinite
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(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
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no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
DANNY KAYE
Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling.
AMITABH BACHCHAN
Life is a matter of really tough choices.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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