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Life Quotes


"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."


"I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me."


"Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?"


"People should always have something which they prefer to life."


"Death comes in endless forms. Of the body. Of the soul. Of the heart. - Catriona Mercant, philosopher and warrior. (circa 1419)"


"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."



"I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years."


"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."


"Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things."


"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"


"I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at."


"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."


"I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by."


"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."


"Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important."


"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."


"For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities."


"If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals."


"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."


"The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life."


"You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it."


"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."


"What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off."
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"What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes."


"I would say to young physicians that the more you intentionally improve the lives of the people in the community you serve the better your life will be and the greater your value will be to the community."


"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."


"I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me."


"I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life."
Life,


"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman."



"And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but some who are still here, who gave me love and called forth love from me. When I number them over, I am surprised how many there are. And so I have to say that another of the golden threads is gratitude.I was grateful because I knew, even in my fear and grief, that my life had been filled with gifts."


"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."


"In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book."
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