Life Quotes
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Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
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I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
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To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.
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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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I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.
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It was Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.
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My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?
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So Polaroid's Dr. Edwin Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.
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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.
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You're never too good to get better... take that and apply that to everything in your life.
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I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.
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Life remains ambiguous as long as there is life. The question implied in the ambiguities of life derives to a new question, namely, that of the direction in which life moves. This is the question of history. Systematically speaking, history, characterized as it as by its direction
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Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.
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At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.
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While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.
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We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.
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I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.
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All I meant was we all make choices in life. I don't think your mom made bad choices. It's just...if you make a left turn, you can't make a right turn at the same time.
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In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.
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Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
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To control your hormones is to control your life.
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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
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The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.
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He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.
