Life Quotes
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We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each other as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows easily . . . And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.
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May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.
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I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.
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There are so many easier ways to live your life than to start a company.
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The natural environment is not particularly hospitable to human life ... the key to having a good environment is improving it through work... Energy is fundamentally an environmental improver and if we classify it that way it makes sense out of a lot of these controversies...It's our obligation and our right to make our environment as good for human beings as possible. With that view, it's very easy for people to understand precisely the reason it's good to alter it - because it doesn't naturally come the way we need it to be.
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'Shadowboxer' was based on my life.
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
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Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.
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I want a man in my life, not in my house.
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We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
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Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us - or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
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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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I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
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Everything in life and business, you only earn more if you become more valuable. Because if you can do more for people than anybody else does, you can prosper. But you can't do that unless you're constantly educating yourself with the cutting edge. My whole life, even when I had no money, I would invest in education.
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I learned that life is a long and difficult road, but you have to keep going, or you'll fall by the wayside.
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I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.
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It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing.
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I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.
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There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.
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That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.
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I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.
