Life Quotes
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.
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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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I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.
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I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.
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I enjoyed my schooldays, but I thought, 'I've got to get through it, and then my life can start.'
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That's what she Hillary Clinton is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need.
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Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
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The Lord will make much more out of your life than you can by yourself.
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Life is about women, gigs, and being creative.
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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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Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
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Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
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Life is about having a good time.
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The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.
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At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
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Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.
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I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.
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Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.
