Saint Augustine Quotes
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
Quotes to Explore
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
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There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
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And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.
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Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.
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The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.
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How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
