Life Quotes
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When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
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I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.
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I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.
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I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.
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In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
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I want to make a poem of my life.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.
