Life Quotes
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Though a skilled mathematician, Alfred Marshall used mathematics sparingly. He saw that excessive reliance on this instrument might lead us astray in pursuit of intellectual toys, imaginary problems not conforming to the conditions of real life: and further, might distort our sense of proportion by causing us to neglect factors that could not easily be worked up in the mathematical machine.
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The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
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Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
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If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
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I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
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The one function that most gods seem to have in common is to give human existence some ultimate purpose - and, while it is not possible to disprove an ultimate purpose, there does not seem to be any evidence for it. This is not to say, of course, that there is no purpose in life at all: we all make our own purposes as we go through life. And life does not lose its value simply because it it not going to last forever.
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Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
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Four years into the life of my son, I realize I'm so in love with him and he's so in love with me that if I don't find that lifelong partner out there, it's okay.
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I think everyone needs competition in life, whether it be myself, you, the President.
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Anything I do in life, the first person I share it with is my elder brother. He always tells me the way to take it forward.
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There have been many times when I was working out intensely and in the best shape of my life, and then, for whatever reason, I got off track. Before I knew it, 3 or 4 months would go by, and all of a sudden, I'd find myself exhausted halfway up a flight of stairs!
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
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For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
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'a man whose life is so boring that if it flashed past he wouldn't be in it'
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America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
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My life revolves around my child's routine.
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Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed
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Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.
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Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.
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So much of football relates to Christian life - sacrifice, commitment, discipline.
