Life Quotes
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People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.
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Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
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Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.
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The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.
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It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.
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It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
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I will never apologize for having a life.
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Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.
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Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
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The albums 'Heaven On Earth' and 'Runaway Horses' and 'Live Your Life Be Free' were harking back to when I was a young girl and listening to Californian radio - lush productions, complicated melodies, harmonies like the Beach Boys and the Mamas and Papas. That's what those albums remind me of.
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Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
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I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
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But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?
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What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this: the story of a life. No more, no less.
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I was only a young girl of 13 when my father passed away from a sudden heart attack, leaving us unprepared to take on life without him. We had been protected from life's challenges so far. But without warning, all that changed overnight.
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I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.
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A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.
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Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.
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You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.
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People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.
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Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life.
