Life Quotes
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I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.
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Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?
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Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.
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Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.
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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
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A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
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More and more, I am realizing that life is too short to do crap that doesn't make you happy, and we only get one shot at it all.
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I always see the glass as half full and prefer to look on the bright side of life.
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The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.
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For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
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Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
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Another man whose social life has ruined him.
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Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.
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I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.
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You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose.
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere – although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
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Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters.
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The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that.
