Life Quotes
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A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
Beryl Markham
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The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.
Marcel Proust
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He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
Edward Joseph Young
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Life, on confidence, is an extraordinary and powerful thing.
Claire Shipman
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My mom always let me watch movies that were probably slightly too mature for my age, but she wanted me to see different stories. We grew up with quite a hard life, so she wasn't afraid to show me that in movies.
Kaya Scodelario
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
Christian Bale
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To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you - you don't flow from it.
Georgette Mosbacher
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Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.
Nicholas Sparks
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James
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An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
Eugene Grace
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It's so fun to make up stories, but I find that the songs that I'm most proud of came from a real thing in my life - 'Peter Pan' being one of those.
Kelsea Ballerini
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And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
Albert Camus
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I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.
Jonathan Groff
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Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
Eloisa James
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
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She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as the hollowest substitute for that well-being that our lives ought to be grounded in, but alas! are not.
William James
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Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
Aubrey Malphurs
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Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.
Sarah Dessen
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Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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...
George Bernard Shaw
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Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.
Andrey Zvyagintsev
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In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
Anthony Robbins