Life Quotes
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By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result-fudoshin, the "immovable mind".
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I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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You never know what show is going to change your life.
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Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.
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There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Anyone who wants to offer me as mushy, earthy, crunchy a role as they can, I will probably take it. In real life, I cry at a drop of a hat, and I'm a mom, and I'm pretty mushy! We all have so many colors as actors that we want to show.
