Life Quotes
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People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.
E. M. Forster
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He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences in my journal, than I do in reading much. Novels, even if they are good, pass out of my memory very rapidly. I enjoy it as I should a scene at the theatre; but am not essentially benefited by the incidents or morals. What more desirable at this period of my life than to find sources of daily peace and joy from within; that I think is true life.
Abby May Alcott
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Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.
Nizar Qabbani
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In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.
Allison Williams
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Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.
Oprah Winfrey
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At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.
Immanuel Kant
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Every decision we make has to be evaluated in light of our life-changing commitment to being a servant of Christ and His kingdom.
David Jeremiah
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I'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
Carl Lewis
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Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.
Dalai Lama
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The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?
David Trumble
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It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.
Annette Bening