Life Quotes
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Sometimes things happen in life, and you kind of need a friend.
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Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.
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Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.
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The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.
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Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.
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How do we connect meaningfully with each other, as meaningfully as possible, within the limits of language and time? How does empathy work? What is the process by which someone comes into our life and comes to mean something to us? These, to me, are the test’s most central questions—the most central questions of being human.
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Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
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Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.
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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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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.
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I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.
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Life is fullest when we are most true to ourselves.
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The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.
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The secret of life is... everything is out of control.
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Art is the flower... life the green leaf.
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I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other.
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The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life.
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I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.
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It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
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Now that I've moved to Mumbai, I should perhaps get a horse. It'll be a nice escape from my everyday life.
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Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
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Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.
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Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.
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All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.
