Life Quotes
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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Good friends are like beautiful flowers in the garden of life.
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If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
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An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
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I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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“I have since wondered, of course, how my life would have been different if I'd decided to stay home that morning. This is what's called the enigma of history, and it can drive you out of your mind if you let it.”
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There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
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Oh, I am in love with life!
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Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
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We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.
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Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.
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Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
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It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way.
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We won't apologise for our way of life, nor will we weaver in its defence, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken, you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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The life I remember begins at Imperia, where I went to school, including the Ginnasio-Liceo 'De Amicis.'
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You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.
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I'm quite cautious in most areas of my life, but I'm always happy to gamble when it comes to acting. I'm not frightened of falling on my face.
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Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.
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At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
