Life Quotes
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Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.
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Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.
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I am definitely not rich.
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When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.
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I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!
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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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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
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While we wait for life, life passes
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Jazz is a way of life, and you have to learn about it on the street, so to speak. But the training comes in by giving you the tools to work with.
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If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
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I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.
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People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.
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It's the moments of our life that shape us.
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I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.
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Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.
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Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.
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A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
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(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms and would not find them and later it would fall asleep on millennial marble, weakened by then, until the grip of the delicate, tenacious feet loosened and it fell, a thin leaf of premature autumn.
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
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The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.
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Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.
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I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
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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.
