Lives Quotes
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The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.
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I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.
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Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.
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...men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. And I think that soul doesn't necessarily die after we're dead and maybe there's a sense of sometimes we know more than we think we know about our lives and our demise.
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A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.
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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
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None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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Our lives are interesting.
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They have truly dedicated their entire lives to making a positive difference in the lives of each child at Nazareth.
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Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.
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Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.
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How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people.
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Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone.
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Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
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I grew up in a bustling household of women with my mom, granny, and aunts. Seeing all these strong women taking charge of their lives and living it to the fullest was a great inspiration while growing up.
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There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others.