Life Quotes
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What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
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If you have many desires your life will be interesting.
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It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.
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There comes a time in every person's life when he has to choose the course his life will take.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.
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Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
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My work life is pretty much the opposite of what you would expect.
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You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now-this day-this hour.
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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.
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There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.
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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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Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.
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I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.
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Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.
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Until death it is all life.
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Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.
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Yes, I was stupid. The channels of my senses were blocked, how long had it been since life flowed in them. What a mistake it had been to close off the meaning of my existence in the rites that Mario offered with cautious conjugal rapture. What a mistake it had been to entrust the sense of myself to his gratifications, his enthusiasms, to the ever more productive course of his life. What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
