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Life Quotes


"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."


"I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet."


"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."


"But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want."



"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."



"I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life."


"When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible."


"If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life."


"Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job."


"So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself."


"He had been frightened and so he had been vehement."



"It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it; we are lighting matches in vain under every green tree."


"Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying."


"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."


"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations."


"Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we're all dying " nay, we're all dead " and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting."


"One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways."


"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in."


"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized."


"People who kill time are themselves not alive."


"There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life."


"P.S. May, don't these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?"


"The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life."


"To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?"
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"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."


"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."
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