Life Quotes
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Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.
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Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.
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Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.
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We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
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The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.
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How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?
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Find the center of what you believe matters most to you in life ,and act on it today! The moment is now!
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I lived in pain because I chose to live in pain. Somewhere along the line, I fell in love with the idea of tragedy, the idea that I was destined to live a tragic life. I had this romantic idea about the life of a writer and what he was supposed to suffer. Somehow I made my own pain a kind of god.
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People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
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It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.
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In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
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You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'
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I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.
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Some people are going to be happy with my decision, some people aren't... But I must live my life.
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Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.
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Once avant-garde artists receive official recognition, they start a double life. In one, they inspire younger artists to do more. In the other, they inspire a mass of imitators who make the work respectable and exclusionary. The artists and their art become intellectual brand names.
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One disgust, then another - to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind...The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive.
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Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
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When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.
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When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.
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I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
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You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.
