Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!
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Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.
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Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?
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To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.
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I was a very, very shy, insecure teenager.
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Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
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Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!
