Life Quotes
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Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
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The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
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A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.
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Mom always says all sorts of shit goes down in the world, and it’s up to me to decide how to take it. The one way you’re sure to be unhappy is to frown your way through life, she says, and she’s right. Always look for the bright, vibrant color through the darkness. It’s always there, but sometimes hard to see.
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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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It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.
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My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.
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I think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejected demanded that I spend all my time telling my daughter to be less and my son to be more.
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Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
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We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.
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And that's it; that's why I want to teach; that's the one and only compensation: to make a permanent difference in the life of a child.
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I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
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Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
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I was living a life of a lie. I really was.
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Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.
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Acting is an experience of using your body to take your place in life.
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Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
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The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
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Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him.
