Life Quotes
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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness – people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
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Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
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My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.
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That was our whole ambition was to become songwriters and get a publishing deal. So music has always been a part of my life.
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Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
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Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a journey you take your whole life, that coming back in, re-landing in your body, in your self, on the Earth. I think one of the reasons it's been so easy, in a way, for us to violate both women and the Earth is this profound dissociation that exists in everyone.
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If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?
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I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.
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He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
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As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
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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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I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
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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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If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.
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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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Harass someone on Bumble, and you're banned for life. Harsh? Maybe. But I feel strongly that we won't end misogyny until we start holding each other to higher standards, and that starts with setting clear boundaries and enforcing them.
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Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.
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Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
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There is no life without challenge or adversity. So we have to decide whether to treat it as a friend or a foe.
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I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.
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Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
