Life Quotes
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Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
Eric Carle
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
William Blake
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But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.
Christopher Alexander
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The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
Lou Brock
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life.
Antonio Banderas
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The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
Cory Booker
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
Blaise Pascal
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Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.
Louis Theroux
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Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.
Emilie du Chatelet
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One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.
Marshall McLuhan
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Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
Matt Groening
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Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.
Kyle Shewfelt
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My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.
Pope Francis
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I think the main reason for staying positive is because if I walk out this door and get hit by a car and I have 10 seconds to live, in those 10 seconds, am I gonna sit there and regret being having been negative and bored my whole life?
John Newman
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What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?
Douglas Coupland
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Self-knowledge will reveal the elements of biological human nature from which modern social life proliferated in all its strange forms.
E. O. Wilson
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Golf is a lot like life. When you make a decision, stick with it.
Byron Nelson
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Life is just a lot of everyday adventures.
Carol Ryrie Brink
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Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life.
Buck Brannaman
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Because I'm a performer I can justify and sometimes sell the things about me that offend and shock the conventional world. I need to live life in the fast lane. I need to do things to excess. I need to go over the edge. I have an obligation to experience the things most people can't experience. The taboos. The things you're not supposed to know or do. That's part of my job. That's why I do it. I would probably do it anyway.
Elizabeth Ashley
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus