Life Quotes
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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I have no other balm to sweeten the bitterness of a harsh and melancholy life than the satisfaction given by the conviction of having always done what I believed to be my duty. God grant that I can say the same at the hour of my death.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Without realizing it, the architect had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
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Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
