Life Quotes
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If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.
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The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.
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Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.
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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
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Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
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Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile
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The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.
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Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.
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For Spinoza, an ethics and a politics follow directly from and are immanent in metaphysics; the better one understands the universe in its complexity, in the connections that link each thing to every other, the more adequate is one’s ethical relation in and to it. An ethics does not spring directly from our understanding of the world. Rather, it comes from our affective bonds to and connections with other things in the world, relations that enable us to enhance or diminish forms of life.
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The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
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I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.
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When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.
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I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.
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Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.
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It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.
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To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
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Those who choose love – daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life – will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.
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Music brings life to my soul.
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I realise how pleasant life can be if I stop thinking about it. It is much simpler to exist than to live.
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You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
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Drink water, drink tea. I find that if I drink tea I can make myself think that it's something special, because you know how you just really want a glass of wine at the end of the day? So sometimes I can really want a glass of wine but talk myself into believing that tea is as nice, and that's one thing to do to be nice to your skin. Actually, two things: you're not have the wine and you're drinking water. Also just working out. All the things you do to be healthy in your life help your skin.
