Yann Martel Quotes
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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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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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
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I was raised on nothing but love and support.
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We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.
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I consider non-violence to be compassion in action. It doesn’t mean weakness, cowering in fear, or simply doing nothing. It is to act without violence, motivated by compassion, recognising the rights of others.
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There’s a world out there. Open a window, and it’s there.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
