Life Quotes
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I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read
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You know, it was beautiful to be in that kitchen just then. I guess there are times of quiet beauty in life.
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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
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Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.
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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
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There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.
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Basically, I chose not to identify with being broke any longer. I realized I deserved a beautiful life, and abundance was something that I needed to welcome into my life.
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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.
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I was brought up on a farm, and I've learned that every opportunity that I've had in my life has come from hard work and persistence.
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I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me.
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What's life if you're not enjoying it?
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My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things – which are just benefits of doing something I loved.
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I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
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One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
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If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.
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Life is lived in common, but not in community.
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I believe in commitment to duty. That's how I've lived my life.
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Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.
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Be not afraid of greatness.
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Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.
