T. S. Eliot Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

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Life is what's happening while you're worrying.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill: Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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