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Life Quotes
"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace."
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"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child."
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"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
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"I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt."
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"Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary."
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"If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life."
Life,
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"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."
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"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
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"No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad."
Life,
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"She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it."
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"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance."
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"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship."
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"When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder."
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"That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else."
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"He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life."
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"If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that."
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"I've had to do that all my life because my energy is way, way overwhelming."
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"When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't that wrong. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young erode. We end up all belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself."
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"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
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"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."
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"Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand."
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"I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today."
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"Life is Worth Living: 10 Life PossibilitiesWhere there is a breathing there is a breakthroughWhere there is pain there is a planWhere there is someone there is somethingWhere there is a price there is a provisionWhere there is peace there is a possibilityWhere there is hunger there is humblenessWhere there is thirst there is thoughtfulnessWhere there is rest there is restorationWhere there is faith there is a foundationWhere there is life there is a living."
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"Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing."
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"A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that."
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"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
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"In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible."
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"I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started."
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