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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu

Life, Forward, Reality

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Politics, Keep, Whole

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

Life, Character, Help

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Future, Sum

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

Great, Done, Together

My life has been a series of emergencies.
Lana Turner

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
H. L. Mencken

Himself, Relatives, Cousins

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Live, Another, Leading

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn

Marriage, Desperate

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball

Love, Business, Try

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol

Life, Change, Themselves

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf

Life, End, Beginning

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
George Eliot

Great, Done, Together

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Successful, Gestures, Unbroken

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
Sivananda

Life, Good, Bad

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
Margaret Mead

Humanity, Together, Learned

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles R. Swindoll

Great, Impossible, Situations

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
John Buchan

Hope, Fishing, Pursuit

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner

Great, Problems, Disguised

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Woman, Chastity, Onion

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
Howard Schultz

Life, Future, Luck

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom

Life, Time, Done

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
David Attenborough

Small, Hell, Getting

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
William Shatner

Work, Hard, Coal

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Single, Before, After

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov

Existence, Obscure, Unfinished

A series is filled with compromises.
William Shatner

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.
Michael J. Fox

Give, Chance, Idea

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.
Jon Stewart

Freedom, Battle, Between

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.
Terry Pratchett

Art, Death, Character

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