Life Quotes
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We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.
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Is this the life you really want? Or is it just the fantasy of it?
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
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There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
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I realize that if I were in that situation - living a hard life with people telling them they're not worthy of love - maybe I would be that strong and that brave.
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
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The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.
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When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.
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Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.
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Nothing but a good life can fit men for a better one hereafter.
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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.
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Of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life.
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Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.
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One of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
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I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
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As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.
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You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
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Life is hard already. Why make it harder?
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally
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Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
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The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
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The purpose of your life is Joy.