Life Quotes
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If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
Thomas Nagel
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My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.
Ernest Gallo
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.
Carl Holmes
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My whole life revolved around gymnastics because I loved it so much. I home-schooled because of it; I changed my eating habits.
Laurie Hernandez
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She thinks that life is crueler and more beautiful than she had ever imagined.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.
Harrison Ford
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
Michelangelo
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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
Nicholas Sparks
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If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
Elizabeth Edwards
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I'm a different immigrant. My life is so lucky compared to so many.
Jose Andres
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If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.
Tony Kushner
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Get up,” she said. “Get up, my lord. If you do not have long, there is still much to do. You must not waste another day, another morning! Take hold of your life with both hands and crush it to you, my lord. You will not have another in this world.
Conn Iggulden
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Life, in that it is life, necessarily entails justice.
Martin Buber
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When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.
Aleida Guevara
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Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.
Nicholas Thorburn
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But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Carol Burnett
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There are so few times in life where you are passionate about anything. And I think that if you can find that, you should just hold on to it and protect it at all costs and just follow it, because it's so rare.
Kelly Marie Tran
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The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Bill Gates
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I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can.
Nico Tortorella
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Maybe that's what life was. You zigged and you zagged and zigged and zagged some more.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles.
Lucas Hedges
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God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
Josiah Royce
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I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.
Nora Fatehi
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I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.
Hubert de Givenchy