Life Quotes
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Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
Jim Harrison
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I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.
Bobby Riggs
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Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.
Lee Hall
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Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
Augusto Roa Bastos
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For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
Lionel Barrymore
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Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.
M. Leighton
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
Marcus Aurelius
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I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.
Anna Torv
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My entire life would be reduced merely to a petty battle to change my social class.
Elena Ferrante
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If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I'm a married woman. I love my husband; I have a good life.
Gennifer Flowers
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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
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To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.
Stephen Covey
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I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's the money?'
Lorrie Moore
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For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.
Kelli O'Hara
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I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.
Blase J. Cupich
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Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.
Neil Harbisson
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So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
Luc Ferrari
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Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life.
Elif Batuman
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A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
Barack Obama
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I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.
Donald Freed