Life Quotes
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The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.
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Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
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Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
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Life is simple: Make choices and don't look back.
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Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
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You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.
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We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.
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As for myself, 'total liberal outlook on life and politics' is not an accurate description.
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I'm a musical person, and that's what I want my life to be about.
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Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.
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Fitness is a huge part of my life. It always has been, and hopefully always will be! You have to have a level of fitness to be able to rap and jump around on stage anyway.
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I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."
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Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.
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I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.
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Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.
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Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.
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Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
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I've never been onstage in my life.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.
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If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?
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I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.
