Life Quotes
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The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
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My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
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As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives.
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I think I have almost everything I could ever want. I have my family, and I have a lot of love in my life.
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Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
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What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to, or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
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I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.
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To the outside world, I was pretty bad at everything my whole life. People didn't credit me for my musicianship.
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Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession-from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting-you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.
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I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
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My friends and my family are such a massive part of my life. My kids are everything.
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I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.
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Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.
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You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.
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People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
