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Life Quotes
"I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life."
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"Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But not for the first time, such giving was not pain. He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than life itself - clothes upon the body of his son."
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"Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life."
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"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
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"My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides."
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"Even in Siberia there is happiness."
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"Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life."
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"Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the Gospel provides in Christ. We Christians ought to be light and salt in the society in which we live."
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"...you play the instrument you have."
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"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."
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"Starting the day-Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer-both solemn and joyful at still being alive . . ."
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"The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it."
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"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
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"But once upon a time - that would be our time - a telephone cord seemed like nothing less than a lifeline.It was your attachment to the outside world and, even more than that, your attachment to the people you loved, or wanted to love, or tried to love. Everything about it was fitting - the way it curled in on itself, the way it got so easily tangled, the way you could pull it only so far before it kept you in place.Twisted and knotted and essential."
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"This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don't know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and I'm sort of scared to leave it all behind, everything I've lived with, I have so many memories of all the things I've done here and I'm afraid if I leave, I might lose all my memories."
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"The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it."
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"The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important."
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"This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen."
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"The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life."
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."
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"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life."
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"When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."
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"As a person finds God's will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit."
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"A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."
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"To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!"
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"When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life."
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