Life Quotes
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I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.
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The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
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Your goal in life should be to enjoy the highest levels of health and energy possible. This requires that you eat the right foods and fewer of them. It requires you to get regular exercise and move every joint of your body daily. To enjoy superb physical health, you must get lots of rest and recreation. Above all, you maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.
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The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.
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Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.
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I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.
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For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.
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The air is crowded with birds - beautiful, tender, intelligent birds - to whom life is a song.
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It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
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I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. ... I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. ... When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ... People have told me songs I've written have changed their life. That's remarkable. That keeps your faith.
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The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
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Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.
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Enjoy life, it has an expiration date.
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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
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If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
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A lot of people who are 'social media' stars aren't considered to be 'real' stars, and people underestimate the amount of work it takes to edit and upload a video every single day and document your life like that.
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I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.
