Life Quotes
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Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
William Feather
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I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.
Jon Hamm
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When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.
Lois Frankel
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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
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Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!
Neneh Cherry
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Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Ray Bradbury
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
Seneca the Younger
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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Elia Kazan
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I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.
Benjamin Jealous
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The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
William Barclay
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I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.
Amy Bloom
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Each morning when you wake, and everyday for the rest of your life... Expect the best of yourself, and accept the rest from yourself.
Hal Elrod
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When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.
Hillary Clinton
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The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.
Adam Khoo
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If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.
Joycelyn Elders
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How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
Nelson DeMille
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Auguste Renoir
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The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.
Hayley Williams Paramore
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Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.
G. Campbell Morgan
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Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
William Stafford
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I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
Martina McBride
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Anyone who says he is not emotional is not getting what he should out of life.
Ezer Weizman
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Bob Dole is not a bitter man. That part is jarring. His life was hard.
Jeanne Marie Laskas