Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free."
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Things In Life
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Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know."
Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist
"I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."
Mencius
Philosopher
"The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories."
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"There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress."
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"No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it."
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"For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!"
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"One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas."
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"One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old"
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"Only the small things in life are important"
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"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"
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"The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith."
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"Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life."
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"I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't."
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"We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create"
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"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action."
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"The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure."
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"The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it."
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"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
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"There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change."
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"I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living."
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"I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened."
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"The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive."
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"Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love--that's not so bad either."
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