Life Quotes
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You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".
Quentin S. Crisp
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Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.
Alessandro Nivola
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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
Immanuel Kant
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Live life messy and love every moment of it.
Ashley Smith
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To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.
Emma Goldman
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Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.
Maura Tierney
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Of no distemper, of no blast he died,But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long - Even wondered at, because he dropped no sooner.Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years,Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;Till like a clock worn out with eating time,The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
John Dryden
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Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end...
Marianne Williamson
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I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.
Ryan Gosling
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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.
Nagai Sōkichi
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I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.
Joseph Beuys
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Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.
Marcel Proust
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This acquaintance with Marianne Werefkin would change my life. I became a friend of hers, of this clever woman gifted with genius.
Alexej von Jawlensky
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I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.
James Altucher
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Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting - I sing and I've written books, for instance - but acting is what keeps me going: it's what I do; it gives life purpose.
Christopher Lee
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I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.
Cory Monteith
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
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In the crime fiction section, you may just find a novel that talks about the place where you're from and speaks to you about your life - or the life yours could have become if a little misfortune had come your way.
Adrian McKinty
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Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.
Lao Tzu
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I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be good rock n' roll - and I still think it is true.
Atul Gawande
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A lot of my fears come out in my work rather than life.
Adrian Tomine
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Every little thing you do adds up and before you know it you've created your life. And how you create your life ripples out and affects everyone and everything that crosses your path, known or unknown to you.
Kathy Freston
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Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
Dean Stockwell
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Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.
Jean-Michel Jarre