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Life Quotes


"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now."


"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."


"Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life."



"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is."



"It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be absent during their lifetime, although when they leave our sight we have no more pleasure in them. What tortures us, therefore, is an idea."


"Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there."


"Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from."


"BEWARE DON'T RUN AFTER A MIRAGEWe were happier when we were poor. We were happier when we did not have good food to eat or good clothes to wear. We were happier when we did not have a luxurious life. We were happier when we did not have our own house because we had a home, a family and understood, loved and lived for each other. I have failed to understand what we run after even when we have all."


"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."


"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"


"The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence."


"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."



"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."


"Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance."


"If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place."


"In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect."



"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."
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"Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly."


"This life of being a transient human being has gotten to a point when it's very hard to bear."


"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."


"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."


"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."



"Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich."


"Awareness is not a prerequisite for change."


"When your car needs gas, you go to a gas station and get back on the road. You don't stay at the gas station for the rest of your life. Learn to rest and never to quit. Remember this while you journey through life."
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