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"When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure."
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"Having a job does not mean living."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
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"Real living is living for others."
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"All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
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"I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that."
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"It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast."
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"We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive."
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"I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures."
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"My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it."
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"Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator."
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".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
Memory
"Time flies with you."
Romance
"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
Parenting
"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
Family
"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
Family
"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
Relationship
"That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."
Spiritual
"The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it."
Aging
"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
Story
"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."
Purpose
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