Life Quotes
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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
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What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.
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'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death.
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This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
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When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.
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in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.
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We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North.
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I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.
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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
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I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn help others and to use the opportunities that I had had in my life to really turn that around and to make an impact and to carry forth some of the issues that I believe are important to the future of our society.
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I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
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I met Hillary Clinton when I was a young lady working as an intern, and I can tell you she's been a progressive fighter all her life. And Bernie Sanders, I got to know him during campaigns on Capitol Hill, campaigns across this country. These are two wonderful, fighting souls.
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New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
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A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
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I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.
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Words are my life.
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Every mission has life-or-death moments.
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The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are healthier ways that you can put this into your life. And the three big ones are intimacy ... physical activity ... and the third thing is music.
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I went to a haunted house once, and I don't do well in situations like that, and I've lived my entire life not being scared or anything.
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I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
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The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.
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I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.
