Life Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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You've got to live life to write a book about it.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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Love is the salt of life.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.
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Even though she's my younger sister, Becky's definitely a role model in my life. She's the most genuinely positive person I've ever met.
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When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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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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Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.
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When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.
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Rebellion, revolution don't need dollars They need this instead Imagination, suffering, light and love And care for every human being You never steal, you never kill You are a part of hope and life The revolution goes from man to man And heart to heart And I sense when I look at the stars That we are children of life Death is small
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Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
