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“Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it.”

Thinking Our Lives Hundred Dollars Spending

Book:Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

Source: Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life

“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Made Stills Seems Next Decision Vision Our Lives Shapes Draws Hundred Twenties Decades Cards Deck Indecision Revision

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.”

Years Mean Two Happiness Our Lives Generations Hundred Happy Despise

Author:Anton Chekhov

“There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.”

Might Used Certain Language Quality Our Lives Products Computer Hundred Phrases Acquire Japan Mysticism Mystical Floats Denmark

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.”

Thinking Long Self Our Lives Goes On Please Safe Behavior Messages Hundred Regard Contact

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.”

People Ifs Trying Years Our Lives Planets Periods Hundred Meaning Of Life Visitors True Meaning True Meaning Of Life

Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.”

Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection

“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”

“I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!”

Men Earth Waiting Our Lives Sea Feet Hair Thousand Eternal Hundred Flow Rivers Shoulders Breasts Jealous Be You Surf Waiting For You Not Jealous Wild Sea

Book:The captain's verses

Source: The captain's verses