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Life Quotes


"Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living."



"Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient."


"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."


"Having plans sounds like a good idea - until you have to put on clothes and leave your house."


"My children are the most important thing in my life."


"Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story."


"He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it."


"In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations."


"By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and put life in its place."


"God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life."


"I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?"



"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."


"It doesn't matter what others feel about you, what matters is how do you feel about yourself."


"I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them."


"People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me."


"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone."


"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
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