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Quote by Samuel Smiles
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. -

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. – Samuel Smiles

Other quotes by Samuel Smiles

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. – Samuel Smiles

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Hope
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Samuel Smiles
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles

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Failure
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. – Tennessee Williams

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I have so much chaos in my life, its become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how theyre wrong. – Tom Welling

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Life

I havent understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. – Igor Stravinsky

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Life

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesnt have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something thats startling or is so poignant. – Patti Smith

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positive

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like its hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. – Tom Waits

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What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. – Rumi

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Rumi

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions. – Thomas Kempis

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Tolerance