Life Quotes
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Jewish custom, which traces descent solely from the mother, is more sensible and more discreet. Our own lawgivers can't accept the fact that there are many things in family life that are best kept shrouded in mystery.
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I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.
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You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.
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I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.
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God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.
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I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.
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The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.
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Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
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I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.
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I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
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We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.
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I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
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Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.
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The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
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Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young.
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The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
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In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.
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I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and been mountain flying in Wales. When I got my licence I was over the moon, it was one of the greatest days of my life - it took two years to get!
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Art is not life, but in a sense something contrary to life, since life is transient and changing, while art is permanent.
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My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.
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It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.
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Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
