Life Quotes
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Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
Drew Barrymore
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I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.
Pete Postlethwaite
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My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.
Laurie Hernandez
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
Seneca the Younger
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Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
Saint Augustine
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If you're writing a thriller, and you don't make it compelling, then you've really not done your job. So it's easier for me not to set out with certain goals, and then I can't see them as unmet. It's like life generally: If I'm not aiming to be physically fit, then I'm not always thinking about being unfit.
Claire Messud
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For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
Rose Tremain
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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.
Jonathan Swift
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I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.
Chris Pronger
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I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
Alice Hoffman
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Life is too valuable to be wasted and it lasts too short
Conn Iggulden
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I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
Sean Lennon
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I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.
William Green
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Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.
Jeb Bush
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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
George Eliot
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When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.
Elin Hilderbrand
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I feel pressure because I feel like I have a lot of parents in my life; I have a lot of people who are scared that I'm going to do something wrong.
Shawn Mendes
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If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
Alexander Whyte
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden
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Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'
John Lithgow