Life Quotes
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The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
Bryant H. McGill
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Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.
Sonya Hartnett
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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My life and my mind, I realized, were screwed up enough without me adding to it with drugs.
M. William Phelps
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But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
James Stockdale
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In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.
Pearl S. Buck
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Working out for me is something I do when I feel like it. But it's really about feeling good and taking care of my body rather than having to fit into any sort of model or anything like that. I try to eat well, and everything I do is really just to make me feel my best so that I can come to my job or my personal life and just feel really good.
Lea Michele
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It's interesting how there are a few times in your life when you get to reinvent yourself. Like the beginning of junior high or high school, and certainly when you go off to college.
Adam Scott
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I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on.
Nathan East
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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
Virginia Woolf
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No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
Norodom Sihamoni
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I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.
Anushka Sharma
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The depth of the ocean is calm, but on the surface, there are always waves. If you dive deep in your life, your life can be bliss.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
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Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.
Nicholas Sparks
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If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.
Steve Gleason
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It was very important for me to have a ritual before my show, and to be different from my everyday life.
Jain
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Public schools in the late '80s and early '90s were a total mess... we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.
Ralph Stanley
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My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.
Emma Stone
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Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.
Novalis