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- Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
- Phyllis McGinley
- Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
- Thomas Browne
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
- Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
- Emil Nolde
- 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
- Sir Hugh Walpole
- For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
- Fr. Alfred D'Souza
- Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
- Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
- Stewart B. Johnson
- In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
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