Life Quotes
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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
Gaston Bachelard
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I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
Alicia Keys
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Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.
Jessie Baylin
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Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.
Napoleon Hill
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The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
Brian Tracy
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'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.
Brené Brown
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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
John McGahern
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Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.
Joan Cusack
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
Tabare Vazquez
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My wife has been incredibly supportive of me as a writer. Trying really hard to make sure I get the space and time I need to work as a writer and being willing to make some of the sacrifices that you have to make to live the life of an artist.
Alexi Zentner
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Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.
Jim Brown
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
Barry Cornwall
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I feel like if you just walk with a purpose, people will think you're supposed to be there. That's my life theory.
Kelsea Ballerini
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My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
Bo Jackson
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Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
Rachel Sklar
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A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby
Gabrielle Zevin
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Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
Alex Grey
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
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I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
Waris Ahluwalia
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
Sally Rand
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Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?
Jacqueline Novogratz
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
Mary Gordon