Emily Dickinson Quotes

How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!

Emily Dickinson

• Life
• Pain
• Heaven
• Eclipse

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• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
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  • Careless

• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
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• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Life
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• I've never worried about life's big questions.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Never
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• I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Life
  • Death
  • Marriage

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Blessing

• I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Life
  • Strong
  • My Life

• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Life
  • Money
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• 'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Star
  • My Life

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Life
  • Done
  • My Life

• My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
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• Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Language

• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  

  Tana French
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Change

• When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Scary

• What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?

  

  Rumi
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Calling

• Opportunities may come along for you to convert something-something that exists into something that didn't yet.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • May

• I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Children
  • Practice
  • Husband

• I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

  

  Christopher Hampton

• How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Heaven