Life Quotes
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When I look back on my life, it seems nearly everything of interest happened in little more than one decade - dramas, tragedies, major events, pleasures, my close friendships with artists and political figures, the lovely places where I lived in England and New York, the trips to Europe, visits at the White House.
Lee Radziwill
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Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.
Napoleon Hill
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My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.
Alexander Nehamas
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We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
Rachel Carson
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I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.
Doug Liman
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The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.
Anthony Robbins
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No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice...
Han Nolan
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.
Edward Norton
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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.
Alexandre Dumas
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Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.
D. H. Lawrence
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In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.
Anton Chekhov
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Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
Albert Allen Bartlett