Life Quotes
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This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
Jill Lepore
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In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats
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Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.
Aimee Liu
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I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be
Sebastian Faulks
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Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?
Ray Bradbury
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I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.
Elisabeth of Wied
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You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.
Hilary Swank
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I believe the term you’re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, I’ve discovered there is more to life than formal haberdashery.
Kami Garcia
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Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
Ala Bashir
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Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do… then you never get to find out what happens next!
Brian Falkner
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
John Milton
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If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.
Steve Jobs
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Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.
William Ellery Channing
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Language is at the core of the intellectual and emotional life of every personality….It is used for the trivia of (everyday) living, on the labour market, in professional activities, in several forms of recreation, in church, in clubs, in schools, and so on. We will mention later the difficulties, which may be dramatic in their intensity, faced by a bilingual person who must work in his second language – his sense of being diminished, the irritation which frequently results, and his loss of efficiency.
Andre Laurendeau
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You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.
Saul Zaentz
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If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.
Paul Rust
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Love comes in at the eye.
William Butler Yeats
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The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.
Andre Dubus
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A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
Ernest Dimnet
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In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
Nicole Krauss
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
William Osler
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I want for people not to worry so much. Life ain't going to be perfect, but tings will work out. People come to visit and I always tell them not to worry. If you got something to eat, don't worry, be grateful. Just look at all those books. Those books aren't about food. They're to do with worrying about food.
George Dawson
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So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what life has to offer … That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.
Alexander Nehamas