Life Quotes
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
George Eliot
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Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
Aimee Mullins
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For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
D.B.C. Pierre
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You ask 'What is life?' That is the same as asking 'What is a carrot?' A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.
Anton Chekhov
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Take risks in your life in the pursuit of your dreams, and support the ones you love when they take risks.
Adrian Ballinger
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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
Luke Davies
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One day with life and heartIs more than time enough to find a world.
James Russell Lowell
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The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.
Hilary Mantel
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I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.
Carolina Herrera
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'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'
Bibi Bourelly
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I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.
John T. Chambers
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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
D. H. Lawrence
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The goal is not to add years to your life, but to add life to your years
Zan Perrion
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
Seneca the Younger
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
Alan Paton
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Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.
Ernest Holmes
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When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.
Cathy Guisewite
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It would be fantastic to spend your whole life trying to pursue something and then finally, at the last moment, you achieve it. You know, instead of getting it in the middle of the pursuit and spending the second half giving it meaning.
Ashton Eaton
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner
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Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.
Robert Falcon Scott
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I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
Lee Daniels
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You don't want to be in a fight of the year. It takes years off your life. But, it's why fans tune in; it's why people gravitate toward your fights. It's why people want to watch you fight. It's important to get into them, but it's important to try not to get into too many of them.
Eddie Alvarez
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I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
Lawrence Weschler
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My life was based around the Indy 500 from when I was a child, unlike say Michael’s or the foreign drivers.
Al Unser, Jr.