Life Quotes
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The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.
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A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.
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You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.
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God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.
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Life is hard enough as it is, so at least I can be that person who can show that you’re not alone.
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Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.
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To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible.
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You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
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The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.
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People expect your life to change completely. The main difference is I can get work now. I can do my hobby as a job. It's great. It's a privilege. But in terms of the rest of the stuff, I still got all the same group of friends I always had. I don't do anything different. We still go to the same dirty bars and do the same things. So nothing really changes.
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Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
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Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.
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I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.
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Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'
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Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.
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The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
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Funny how life messed with you.
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Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of it. And finally, don't forget that the biggest joy in photography is making pictures of those things in your own life.
