Life Quotes
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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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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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In all life, there are the people that are right for you, and there are the people that are wrong for you, and then there are the people that you just choose.
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It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.
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Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.
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The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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Nothing matters except life and the love you make.
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.
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Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
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Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.
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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
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Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
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My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
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I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college. I was always working super low-end jobs, being the complete opposite of what I wanted to be.
