Life Quotes
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I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.
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The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.
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I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
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Failure's a natural part of life.
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I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.
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I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.
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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.
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The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
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I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.
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But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven;Living, and comprehensive of all life.Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,Star-throned.
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Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
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I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
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You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.
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'The crime,' said the Jacynth softly, 'is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.'
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Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
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I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.
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A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.
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I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.
