Life Quotes
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The only real failure in life is one not learned from.
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Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
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Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers' lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.
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The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.
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As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
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Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.
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I write to breathe life back into memory.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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I love doing it and am happy with my life.
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The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
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If life had taught her anything—if she had a philosophy of life—it probably boiled down to that: Go with the skid.
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Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that's just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.
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We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
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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 take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to look back on my life one day and say, 'Damn, I wish I hadn't spent so much time with my children.'
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The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there could be no life on this planet; it would be forever barren, cold, and dark.
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Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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It is the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed and I have long feared would be made public.
