Life Quotes
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Life is the soul's nursery.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I'm an artist, and expressing myself in a sexual way, no matter how that changes throughout the years, is something that has always come naturally to me. At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.
Christina Aguilera
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
Billy Joel
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
Adam Rapp
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It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts.
Harold Russell
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We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.
Anton Chekhov
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Drawing identity from any area other than the source of life is a spiritual death sentence, and worse, it's contagious, because it gives birth to tribalism. However, when we return to our central identity of image – bearers designed to receive love from and reflect love to others, we are naturally invited to shed all of the unloving, fear – based tribal behaviors that come from loyalty to the label.
Benjamin L. Corey
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Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.
Baltasar Gracian
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.
Charles de Lint
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Life is a race; desire the goal.
Andrew Michael Ramsay
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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The more simple my life is, the happier I am.
Peter Frampton
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Charles bought a picture of some asparagus from Manet, one of his extraordinary small still lifes, where a lemon or rose is lambent in the dark. It was a bundle of twenty stalks bound in straw. Manet wanted 800 francs for it, a substantial sum, and Charles, thrilled, sent 1,000. A week later Charles received a small canvas signed with a simple M in return. It was a single asparagus stalk laid across a table with an accompanying note: ‘This seems to have slipped from the bundle.
Edmund de Waal
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I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar.
Albert Einstein
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
William Golding
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Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Marilyn Monroe
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Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.
Bo Lozoff
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We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.
Oswald Chambers
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There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
Stephen Malkmus
Pavement
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I got in trouble my whole life for having a big mouth.
Steven Tyler
Aerosmith