Life Quotes
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As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.
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So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
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The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living.
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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
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If my life were a song it would be called 'Don't Stop Believing'. Yeah.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little... unjust.
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Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
