Life Quotes
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When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that plants were so beautiful. When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.
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When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ who is the fullness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world and of the United States, look to Christ.
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Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.
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Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Because of her life, I've been able to say, 'If Oprah can make it, I can make it.' I look at Oprah and was saying to a friend, 'If you wanted to have a checklist for all the reasons why someone would give up or say, 'I'm not going to make it,' or, 'I'm not worthy,' she pretty much has had all of those things on her list.'
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Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.
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I think we all need to be inside of us for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, live life with more passion and look not outwards for validation but inwards.
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It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.
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I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.
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Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
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My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.
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Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal life.
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If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
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My mom and I have been through a lot. But when you think about it, whose life is perfect? It is just really good because we did this together.
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My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.
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You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.
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I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
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Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
