Life Quotes
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Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.
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Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
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Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.
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While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
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You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.
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My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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People think sport is life and death - it's not.
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There's a million people I could name who are more deserving of the parts that I get and the life that I'm living.
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When actually, you have one identity made of different parts. Depending on where you are, at what time in your life, some things are higher or deeper. That's what I understood later: that I'm French and Tunisian, and I'm accepting the French part of my identity.
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Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don't want a political wife - I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with.
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Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.
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The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to rejoice over.
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It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
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I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.
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All we can do in life is push through the things that make us afraid and try to be better.
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Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
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There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
