Life Quotes
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The very thought of this Alaska garden is a joyful exhilaration. … Out of all the cold darkness and glacial crushing and grinding comes this warm, abounding beauty and life to teach us that what we in our faithless ignorance and fear call destruction is creation finer and finer.
John Muir
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I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.
Bindi Irwin
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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 life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.
Ann Zwinger
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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
William James
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I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.
Noah Gray-Cabey
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I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.
Jessica Chastain
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Life's too short not to tell the people you love how you feel. Say it... and say it often. Oh, and start with God.
Mark Hart
Crowded House
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Wodehouse is very interesting. There must be all kinds of darknesses in that man's life.
John Banville
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.
Alexandra Petri
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The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.
Marin Ireland
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The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
Charles Schwab
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He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.
Tracy Chevalier
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If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.
Jo Brand
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Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.
William Sloane Coffin
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Yet they that know all things but know
That all this life can give us is
A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
William Butler Yeats
