Life Quotes
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.
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Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.
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Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?
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A man can't understand how a woman feels--how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing him a burden. He doesn't understand that she's trying to give him a gift.
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?
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To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
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My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
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The reason of my life is not to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
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Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.
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The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
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To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
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'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.
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To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.
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The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
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This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
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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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If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?
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I think what I have done is claimed the space and pushed it forward as much as I can in relationship to who I am and how I live my life.
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I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny.
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I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.
