Life Quotes
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Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.
Honore de Balzac
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Life is like that, don’t you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them.
Joseph Kanon
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As much as we like to pretend we're just getting on stage and whatever, it's like, no, I practiced in front of the mirror my whole life.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
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The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
Rachel Carson
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I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.
Nicholas Sparks
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I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
Cynthia Ozick
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I think some of us have really big challenges in life. But I think everything can be overcome.
Carolyn Cooke
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I have a theory about soul mates – that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
Antonio Tabucchi
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I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.
Oliver Kahn
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
Jonathan Swift
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No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.
André Aciman
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Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.'
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Charles bought a picture of some asparagus from Manet, one of his extraordinary small still lifes, where a lemon or rose is lambent in the dark. It was a bundle of twenty stalks bound in straw. Manet wanted 800 francs for it, a substantial sum, and Charles, thrilled, sent 1,000. A week later Charles received a small canvas signed with a simple M in return. It was a single asparagus stalk laid across a table with an accompanying note: ‘This seems to have slipped from the bundle.
Edmund de Waal
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
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The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope.
Dalai Lama
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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.
Ann Weems
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This is what I always wanted to do in my entire life, so I am not going to sit here and complain that it is so terrible to be in successful movies, because it becomes a trilogy!
Alyson Hannigan
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Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
Jesse Jackson
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I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.
Kim Basinger