Top 100 Life Is Complex Quotes

#1. Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

Marjane Satrapi

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#2. True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents.

Foz Meadows

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#3. Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today ... Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy nor soothe.

Guy P. Harrison

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#4. Life is complex and prone to being pedantic
Always little things crawl, flutter
and creep in.
Nesting in cracks in our psyches
Gibbering, whispering and scratching
on sanity's walls.
Messages without form or reason
Teasing us to come out
And blend in.

Neil Leckman

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#5. Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.

Anonymous

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#6. Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

Alfred North Whitehead

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#7. If you're under stress, your life is complex.
Simplify your life to reduce the stress.

Debasish Mridha

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#8. Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.

Christy Hall

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#9. We must concern ourselves not with what is beyond life, or what is life, or what is the purpose of life, but rather with the understanding of this complex existence of everyday life, because that is the foundation upon which we must build.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#10. Life on the planet and in our galaxy is so complex, I don't hope to have any substantial effect in it, but if I can touch a few people deep in their psyche, by making my personal subjective journey concrete for others, then I am very happy.

Roger Ballen

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#11. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg

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#12. The Bible, however, does present a single picture, complex though it is, of at least one human life: the "image of God" that is granted in the creation of Adam and then presented as the created divine power itself, the Son of God, Jesus the Christ.

Ephraim Radner

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#13. I often ask the question: Is it impossible to have a simple life?
The world is not simple, Claire said.
The world is not simple. Joe repeated the phrase like the line of a great poem.

Elizabeth Brundage

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#14. Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.

Joan Marques

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#15. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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#16. Begin to see that life is very, very complex. It is made up of thousands of dimensions of wonder.

Frederick Lenz

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#17. Everything is more interesting and complex in my mind.

Mark Bradford

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#18. More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

Candice Millard

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#19. The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.

Thorstein Veblen

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#20. To get rid of complexes and consequently, to finding a more conscious and harmonious life is to see and understand where these distortions occurs in our lives

Sunday Adelaja

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#21. Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Paul Rand

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#22. Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear; it will replace with the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#23. Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy.

Kevin Focke

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#24. Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

Daniel Libeskind

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#25. Simplicity shall make you simple and keep you away from so many woes of life! It is simple! Just go for simplicity and be simple, Period!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#26. There is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be NATURALLY SELECTED.

Charles Darwin

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#27. Life is simple, it has always been. What is complex is our brain, and that's the main reason why we perceive life as being complicated. Embrace life for what you have and embrace life for who you are, as what you have others might envy and who you are might be secretly being admired by millions.

Jeekeshen Chinnappen

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#28. Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts ... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.

Viswanathan Anand

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#29. A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts

Sunday Adelaja

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#30. No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

Pat Conroy

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#31. Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.

Alvaro Mutis

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#32. The purpose of philosophy isn't complex theorizing, it is simple and clear thinking in relation to life's big questions.

Steven Colborne

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#33. Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

Alan Ball

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#34. Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?

Paulo Coelho

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#35. The basic idea of a portfolio life is that instead of thinking of your work as a monolithic activity, what if you chose to see it as the complex group of interests, passions, and activities it is?

Jeff Goins

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#36. I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.

Peter Greenaway

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#37. The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#38. I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Dean Koontz

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#39. To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

Auliq Ice

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#40. The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it's so easy to make it complex.

Yvon Chouinard

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#41. Wisdom is better than knowledge, for wisdom is simple but knowledge is complex.

Debasish Mridha

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#42. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Oscar Wilde

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#43. A complex is stealing energy from our personality

Sunday Adelaja

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#44. When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way

Sunday Adelaja

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#45. What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography of the biosphere, and by doing so, dramatically increases productivity without compromising the ecological relationships that govern the planet.

Jeremy Rifkin

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#46. A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently

Sunday Adelaja

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#47. Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.

Percival Lowell

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#48. Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#49. Lisa understands me. I'm very complex, but I have trouble opening up to people. I tend to keep things to myself. All my life, I've been kind of shy - opening up is always a challenge and Lisa can understand that.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

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#50. For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

Miranda Kerr

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#51. Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

Edgar Friedenberg

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#52. A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

Charlie Munger

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#53. Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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#54. Though the universe is delightfully complex, life, at its heart, is not particularly complicated. Live true to who you are and though it won't always be easy, you'll live well.

Ralph Marston

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#55. One of the most important things I've learned in life is that complicated isn't always bad. Sometimes complicated is just complex.

S.L. Scott

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#56. The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.

Lynda Williams

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#57. All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

David Attenborough

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#58. Jake once said on stage that Jonny was the mighty in their storm, and now I see that Jake is my mighty storm. He's broken and complex, and no one knows him like I do, or ever will. He needs me. He's my storm to calm. And I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing just that.

Samantha Towle

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#59. The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

Nancy Kress

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#60. All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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#61. Truth is very simple in nature, people just manipulate to make it fancy and complex...

Ankit Rawat

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#62. No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#63. The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.

Isabel Allende

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#64. What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

Lisa Gardner

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#65. Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Etgar Keret

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#66. Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is when our minds becomes mature enough for sex.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#67. What then is the purpose of national education? Rather than devise complex theoretical interpretations, it is better to start by looking to the lovely child who sits on your knee and ask yourself: What can I do to assure this child will be able to lead the happiest life possible?

Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

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#68. The tar is an extremely rich collection of complex organic molecules, including the constituent parts of proteins and nucleic acids. The stuff of life, it turns out, can be very easily made.

Carl Sagan

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#69. It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117)

Sheldon B. Kopp

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#70. The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.

Douglas Adams

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#71. There is not one soul on this planet, whether it is a person living in Ethiopia, or in Florida, or in Canada, whose life is not as complex and as rich as your own.

Gary Zukav

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#72. Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

Maria Montessori

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#73. The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For ...
things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

Woodrow Wilson

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#74. For to define is to isolate, to separate some complex of forms from the stream of life and say, "This is I." When man can name and define himself, he feels that he has an identity. Thus he begins to feel, like the word, separate and static, as over against the real, fluid world of nature.

Alan W. Watts

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#75. The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

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#76. When you have passion and commitment, you don't need a complex plan. Your plan is your life is your dream.

Rudy Ruettiger

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#77. An inferiority complex is acquired in childhood

Sunday Adelaja

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#78. There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of color, and we're each one tiny thread in the weave.

Jane Johnson

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#79. Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Hugh Mackay

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#80. Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.

Alex Kapranos

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#81. Nature is subtle and complex.

Marlene Van Niekerk

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#82. Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

Eraldo Banovac

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#83. Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.

Judith Lewis Herman

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#84. So really there's almost no point in planning anything out at all, because life is so infinitely complex that you can almost never just take a straight road from A to B without going via the whole rest of the alphabet first, and all because a butterfly happened to flap its wings in Thailand

Andrew Blackman

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#85. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.

Gustav Nossal

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#86. Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex ... even for the wise.

Frederick Lenz

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#87. Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it. 'It's just life,' they say.

Douglas Adams

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#88. But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

Erich Fromm

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#89. Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.

Adam P. Knave

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#90. There was no solution," Tolstoy writes in Anna Karenina, "but the universal solution that life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day - that is forget oneself.

John Irving

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#91. Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

Ray Kurzweil

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#92. Have your life properly aligned with dharma. The technicalities of the movement of the kundalini are easy to master. Dharma is much more complex.

Frederick Lenz

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#93. Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

Sarah Brightman

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#94. No matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.

Vaclav Smil

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#95. Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Harvey Pekar

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#96. Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.

Ezra Miller

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#97. Mike Tyson is the most complex person I've ever met in my life. I've known Mike since 1986. We're both from Brooklyn. I didn't know him growing up, but once he became heavyweight champion, I knew him then.

Spike Lee

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#98. Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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#99. Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#100. Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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