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Life Quotes


"Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?"


"To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better."


"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life."


"Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes."


"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."


"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."


"I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life."


"If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!"
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"Sometimes something that you've been asking forIt's just something that you could not see before. For it was something that made you belong,And that was there the whole time all along."


"No matter how worldly I became, there was always that one part of me that never forgot where I came from and how simple life was there."


"We're all dead...Some of us are just a little further along than others."


"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges."


"My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread."


"To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life."


"We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future."


"I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'"


"Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.Life. In all its mundane majesty.And you couldn't take advantage of it if you were sitting on your ass in the shadows... whether it was in actuality, or metaphorically because you were trapped in an attic's darkness."


"Shit," Drake rubbed a hand over his face. Shit, shit, shit..."Shit," Drake said again...."That about sums it up," Gabriel muttered."


"All of our relationships and our interactions, the life affirming ones and the challenging ones, show us how far we have come and where we still need to go."



"I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts."


"Life isn't long enough for love and art."


"It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about."


"In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic."


"It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight."


"Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?"


"The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you."


"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions."


"The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments."
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