Life Quotes
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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws our way. But they happen all the same, so have a bailout plan just in case. Sounds corny, but I call this the 'freedom fund' because it gives you the freedom to get out of a jam without climbing into debt.
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I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.
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The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.
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I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.
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Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
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Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.
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I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.
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It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.
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I've never had trouble sleeping in my life.
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I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.
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Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason.
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If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.
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Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.
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Asimov: I don't know of any science fiction writer who really attempts to be a prophet. Such authors accomplish their tasks not by being correct in their predictions, necessarily, but merely by hammering home-in story after story-the notion that life is going to be different.
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My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.
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I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
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The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.
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The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
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Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.
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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
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To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
