Life Quotes
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Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music.
Lawrence Weschler
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I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
Elizabeth Strout
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The way you live your life depends on you.
Tori Kelly
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Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.
Chidananda Saraswati
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
David Shields
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Real Life - the real life of joy we are meant to be living - begins when we restore a sense of reverence to our daily affairs. Today, search for the Sacred in the ordinary with gratitude in your heart and you will surely find it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.
Shailene Woodley
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I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
Anne Reid
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I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.
Martina Navratilova
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If you want to live, love, and lead like Jesus, then there's no other place to live but in the faith lane. To discover his plan for your life, you will need to step into the great unknown, risking everything you have. If you get out of the boat and follow the sound of his voice, you will take steps you never thought possible.
Brian Houston
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Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life. It normalises harsh, often indecent language, which despoils our communication.
Mary Whitehouse
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There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: 'Know thyself,' 68 and 'Nothing too much;' and upon these all other precepts depend.
Plutarch
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I don't think there was any point where I was like, 'I want to be an actor for the rest of my life.' The nice thing about being a kid is you don't have to make those decisions. Then all of a sudden, you blink, and you're 18.
Ella Purnell
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Rise to the occassion which is life!
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume
