Lives Quotes
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And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps.
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We've all heard about people who've exploded beyond the limitations of their conditions to become examples of the unlimited power of the human spirit. You and I can make our lives one of these legendary inspirations, as well, simply by having courage and the awareness that we can control whatever happens in our lives. Although we cannot always control the events in our lives, we can always control our response to them, and the actions we take as a result. If there's anything you're not happy about--in your relationships, in your health, in your career--make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.
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Ms. Doman had this whole thing about how we have to tell stories about whatever happens to us, and then we can use those stories to decide whether out lives are happy or not, whether events have redeeming aspects or are totally hopeless, that it's really all about how we choose to shape and name things.
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
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Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.
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I think the reason my relationship works so well with my dad is that we can separate our tennis lives from our personal lives.
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Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
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We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.
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Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
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Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.
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There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.
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Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.
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No one who lives in error is free.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.
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If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.
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It had struck me that most people‘s lives unfolded through a constant process of recalibration. Things happen, often unexpectedly, and a person‘s life adjusts to account for them.
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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
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Since we cannot know too much about the long term effects of our particular lives, and since success and fame are not good measures of the value of what we have done, it should be enough for any of us that as far as we can tell, in some small way we have made humanity's future better rather than worse.
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Everybody was terribly distracted by the seemingly unending, white-hot, existential, logistical, mostly mundane troubles of their own day-to-day lives.
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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
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We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.
