R.K. Narayan Quotes
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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I always say I don't want to change anything in my life.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.
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The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
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There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
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I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.
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Time and time again I can't please myself.
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Life is about making right things and going on.
