Life Quotes
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For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
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I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.
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When I was a young kid, girls were taught that their role in life was to get married and have children. It was the 1950s. Those were the rules.
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It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.
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An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.
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A word does not say anything And at the same time it hides everything Just as the wind that hides the water Like the flowers that mud hides. A glance does not say anything And at the same time it says everything Like rain on your face Or an old treasure map A truth does not say anything And at the same time it hides everything Like a bonfire that does not go out Like a stone that is born dust. If one day you need me, I will be nothing And at the same time I will be everything Because in your eyes are my wings And the shore where I drown.
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A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
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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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I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.
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Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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The most beautiful gift I have received in my life is the trust of Clint Eastwood. When you have this respect and this kind of responsibility on your shoulders, of course you bring the best of yourself.
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What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.
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Work alone qualifies us for life.
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I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.
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That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.
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All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
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I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.
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I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?
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What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.
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Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.
