Life Quotes
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If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
Alexander Payne
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Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
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I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.
Matt Damon
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You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.
Brian Fallon
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Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.
Eliphas Levi
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The death of the forest is the end of our life.
Dorothy Stang
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Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.
Benjamin Carson
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The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life.
Derek Bok
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I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
Lee Radziwill
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I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
Meg Ryan
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I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.
Lorrie Moore
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We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.
Jane Addams
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Only where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy.
Max Heindel
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In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.
Jason Schwartzman
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
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To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.
W. Ian Thomas
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Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Marilu Henner
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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Rabindranath Tagore
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
James Dean
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The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.
Brooke Burke
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
Alan Dundes
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I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
Jeffrey Archer
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
Oscar Wilde
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You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life.
Lesley Lawson