Life Quotes
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
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I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
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Sometimes it seems to me that the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty. And I know that's not rationally true. But sometimes it's okay for things not to be rationally true.
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I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.
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If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.
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Art should be transgressive. Life is not all sweet.
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All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.
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When God does a miracle somehow you have to respond. When God does things for you - maybe we don't deserve them and we can never really repay God but God really wants us to respond to them. He doesn't want us to stay the same. So, for us to respond to what God has done in our lives is probably the same way he would want anyone to do - "Just tell people what I've done for you and what you've seen and heard." That's what we're doing.
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You've got loves of your life and breakups of your life, that kind of thing. They leave a mark. It stays with you, a bad aftertaste.
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Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.
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Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
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There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
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Us women, we are the givers of life. We're the only ones in the world that can carry more than one spirit in us. We are multi-modal. When I was young I could nurse my child and stir the stew and kick the cat out at the same time.
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The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.
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For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.
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Life is best when you are in love.
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The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.
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I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.
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I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.
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The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.
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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
