Life Quotes
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Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
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I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.
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I wanted to get better, and I knew it was the hardest thing I would ever do in my life, bar nothing..
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Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.
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The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.
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...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.
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My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.
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I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.
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While I didn't have a father around, I did have - and what I want my children to both experience - the ability to explore, experiment and enjoy life as a kid.
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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.
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
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Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
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Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Think of how much we stress about living up to our "potential," and how it creates anxiety and terror in people; in short, stops them from living their life as fully as they might out of fear and self-loathing.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.
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A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
