Life Quotes
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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
Anthony Perkins
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'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'
E. M. Forster
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The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.
Kenneth R. Miller
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When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as he thinks, knowing that he thinks - he lies to himself. The only truth in human life is that which is physiological. Speech - this thing that they call a social product - was made for lying.
Miguel de Unamuno
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
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Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
Dante Alighieri
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It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that, it's good to be exploring other stuff as well.
Johnny Flynn
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To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.
Rumi
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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.
James Franco
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The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.
Adam Khoo
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Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
Ninette de Valois
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Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.
John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
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To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
Dean Inge
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
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No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.
Mariah Carey
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Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.
Arthur Lynch
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All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
John C. Maxwell
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Life is not perfect, individuals will always be flawed, but empathy – the sheer inability to see those around them as anything other than people too – conquers all, in the end.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
Rita Mae Brown
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You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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My life is a series of dumb choices
Geoff Ramsey