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"I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life."
Brian Welch
"I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life."
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"I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life."
Gale Sayers
"I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life."
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"I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do."
Fred Korematsu
"I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do."
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"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."
John Ruskin
"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."
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"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
John Stuart Mill
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
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"The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead."
Vince Vaughn
"The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead."
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"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really."
Brandon Lee
"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really."
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"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."
Gwendolyn Brooks
"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."
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"Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge."
Emmitt Smith
"Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge."
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"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."
Morarji Desai
"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."
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"Sometimes being happy will require some difficult conversations. Some of those conversations will be with yourself."
Domonique Bertolucci
"Sometimes being happy will require some difficult conversations. Some of those conversations will be with yourself."
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"Pursue your heart's deep driving desires with joy and love."
Debasish Mridha
"Pursue your heart's deep driving desires with joy and love."
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"I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life."
Jeffrey Archer
"I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life."
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"The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible."
Gabriel Marcel
"The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible."
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"What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made."
Tupac Shakur
"What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made."
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"The things you should value most in this life are NOT things."
Tanya Masse
"The things you should value most in this life are NOT things."
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"The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me."
Kevin Eubanks
"The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me."
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"Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood."
Walter Kaufmann
"Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood."
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"Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy."
Harrison Salisbury
"Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy."
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"Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener."
Nanci Griffith
"Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener."
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"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar
"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want."
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
William James
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
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"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection."
Agnes Martin
"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection."
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"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."
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"As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net."
Annie Dillard
"As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net."
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"Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will provide much satisfaction."
James Dobson
"Until we know who we are and why we are here, no amount of success, fame, money, or pleasure will provide much satisfaction."
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"I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life."
Bede Griffiths
"I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life."
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."
George Allen, Sr.
"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."
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"Life's more amusing than we thought."
Andrew Lang
"Life's more amusing than we thought."
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"I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against."
Damon Runyon
"I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against."
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"And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion."
James Collins
"And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion."
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"So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning."
Conrad Veidt
"So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning."
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"You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords.""Only for you."
Darynda Jones
"You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords.""Only for you."
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"I could feel the weight of everything then --- the weight of loneliness, of everything that had gone wrong. I felt heroic, going up those last few flights to the top of the building, dragging that weight along with me. Jumping felt like the only way to get rid of it, the only way to make it work for me instead of against me; I felt so heavy that I knew I'd hit the street in no time. I'd beat the world record for falling off a tower block."
Nick Hornby
"I could feel the weight of everything then --- the weight of loneliness, of everything that had gone wrong. I felt heroic, going up those last few flights to the top of the building, dragging that weight along with me. Jumping felt like the only way to get rid of it, the only way to make it work for me instead of against me; I felt so heavy that I knew I'd hit the street in no time. I'd beat the world record for falling off a tower block."
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"No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children."
Kingsley Amis
"No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children."
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"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."
Albert Bandura
"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."
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"The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it."
Lisa Bonet
"The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it."
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"If you don't want to leave your home, how can you begin your journey to what you want?"
Debasish Mridha
"If you don't want to leave your home, how can you begin your journey to what you want?"
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"Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues."
Lady Gaga
"Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues."
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"I've had hard coaches all my life."
Chris Webber
"I've had hard coaches all my life."
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"This LIFE is NOT about a BIG house, VALUABLE things, a FULL bank account or a POWERFUL status. It's about having a BIG open mind and heart that respects and accepts differences. It's about VALUING your family, friends & being grateful for the little things.It's about FILLING your heart and soul full of love and laughter, making the best of each day while you can. It's about having the POWER to have a positive attitude and show kindness even when you're dealing with your own adversity. THAT'S what this LIFE is all about!"
Tanya Masse
"This LIFE is NOT about a BIG house, VALUABLE things, a FULL bank account or a POWERFUL status. It's about having a BIG open mind and heart that respects and accepts differences. It's about VALUING your family, friends & being grateful for the little things.It's about FILLING your heart and soul full of love and laughter, making the best of each day while you can. It's about having the POWER to have a positive attitude and show kindness even when you're dealing with your own adversity. THAT'S what this LIFE is all about!"
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"The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?"
Ronnie James Dio
"The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?"
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"Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride."
James Blunt
"Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride."
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"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."
Alexander Woollcott
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."
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"The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind."
Anthony Holden
"The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind."
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"Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing."
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
"Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing."
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"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."
Garrison Keillor
"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."
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"I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know."
Jeffrey Archer
"I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know."
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
Boris Kodjoe
"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
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"I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly."
Nellie Bly
"I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly."
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