Life Quotes
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The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are not daunting to immortal beings. By the end of the third millennium, travel to other stars could be technically feasible. But would there be sufficient motive?
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
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I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.
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It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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Most people I know feel that life would be complete if they could just lose ten pounds.
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.
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Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
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From natural disasters to the refugee crises, the impact we can have as individuals might seem limited. But as many of our hosts know, sharing your home for even a few nights can make a tremendous difference in someone's life.
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I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.
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Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim.
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It is clear that friendship is by and large crucial to human life. And I believe, in contrast with most of the philosophical tradition deriving from Aristotle, that it is not limited to a very few perfect individuals.
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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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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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I believe that we all have freedom to shape our own life and the world around us.
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As a working mother high heels don't really fit into my life anymore - but in a totally wonderful way. I would much rather think about my son than myself.
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Life's too short. We have to love each other.
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
