Life Quotes
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
Seamus Heaney
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I feel that my whole life is a contribution.
Pete Seeger
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Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
Taisen Deshimaru
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
Tayari Jones
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It brings hope and peace of mind knowing that God gave His only begotten Son for us. I'm able to look back and know that on this day Jesus was born and gave us the opportunity to have eternal life.
Adrian Peterson
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I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.
Jack McBrayer
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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
James A. Garfield
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Abu Bakr
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Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.
Longchenpa
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I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
Marjane Satrapi
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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.
Joe Gibbs
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I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.
Matt Groening
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For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!
Kelsea Ballerini
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I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
Sally Field
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Sometimes it felt to him as though he’s spent most of his life traveling, and never quite got to anywhere that mattered. Then again, that might be as good a description of what life was supposed to be as anyone ever thought of. The only real destination was death, and our lives consisted of finding the most circuitous and pleasant path to get there.
Orson Scott Card
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I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?
O. J. Simpson
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We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.
Donald Glover
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Hassan slumps to the asphalt, his life of unrequited loyalty drifting from him like the windblown kites he used to chase.
Khaled Hosseini
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I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.
Grace Martine Tandon
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Under this Constitution the boundaries of freedom have been enlarged, the foundations of order and peace have been strengthened, and the growth of our people in all the better elements of national life has indicated the wisdom of the founders and given new hope to their descendants.
James A. Garfield
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Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.
Katherine Heigl
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In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you're going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That's the biggest advice I can give them.
David Hasselhoff