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Life Quotes


"Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons."
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"Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs."


"Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life."


"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."


"To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show up when I wrote my first books. It took me by surprise. It filled me with gratitude. It still does."



"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."


"If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life."
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"Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions."


"My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life."



"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing."


"An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important."


"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."


"Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten. Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?"Any nausea? Headache?" Yep. And it's standing here talking to me."


"He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it."
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"Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm."


"In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life."


"I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?"


"What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?"


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


"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."



"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."


"Some things cannot be taught, they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey."


"Moreover, you can't stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it's no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels."
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