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Life Quotes


"I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is."



"Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life."


"A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he d still be the loneliest man on earth."



"As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character."


"You're a good boy. I wish you didn't have to be quite so good."


"I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single."


"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."


"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us."



"You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'."


"You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement."



"The sun shines even on the wicked."



"After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper."


"Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer."


"You know' - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- 'I don't know that both of us really have to be here....' The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered,'I could go make some calls... check on some things...''Play some blackjack?''Well, when in Rome...''Rome is tomorrow, babe,' Kat reminded him.He nodded. 'Right."


"When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged."


"There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life."


"I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion."


"If Jiu Jitsu does not make you a better father, son, mother, daughter, wife or husband, you are missing the point. If Jiu Jitsu does not leave you viewing strangers in a kinder light, you are missing the point. If you are not better equipped to deal with the vicissitudes of life due to your training, then you are not really training."


"I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is."
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"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."


"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."


"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life."


"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."



"Kenji snorts."That's because you're not fragile, Kenji says. "If anything, everyone needs to protect themselves from you. You're like a freaking beast, he says. Then adds, "I mean, you know-like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people."


"But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life."



"What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?"


"That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do."


"There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings."


"The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub."
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