Life Quotes
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I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
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Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
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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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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.
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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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I appreciate all my fans, on all occasions, everyday of my life. Its your presence & your loyalty that has given me great strength...
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If you don’t consider your life a pilgrimage, it gets downgraded to a trip or even an aimless journey. It is we who make that decision.
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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
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Life will go better for you the less you’re bothered by people and their dumb habits.)
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The things you think that really change your life a lot, don't.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.
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We've been told there's a certain way to live ... that this is living ... and we ... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!
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If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?
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America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.
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Don't go back over your life with a red pen.
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Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
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When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare.
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It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.
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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
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When I was obese, I reached a point where I was about to meet death, and I lost weight to restart my life.
