Life Quotes
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In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
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We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.
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Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live.
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It makes no sense to say that death is the goal of life, but what else is there to say?
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I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.
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My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.
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In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.
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Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.
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Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.
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No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.
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Life has a great deal up its sleeve.
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Some people in the industry warned me that I'd ruin my career, miss out on possible jobs, and potentially put my life in danger if I ever came out.
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So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
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The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.
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Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
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To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
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Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.
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Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.
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Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
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I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.
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I think I would find being in Hollywood intense if I had more of a social life, but all I do is stay indoors with my sister and play with our puppy, watch movies.
