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Life Quotes


"Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!"


"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."


"I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer."


"You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it."


"Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me."


"It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life."



"Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them."
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"Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life."


"The stage was our school, our home, our life."


"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."



"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."


"A person shattered by their loss in faith must come to terms with the underlying fear and tension of his or her austere solitude and knowingly accept that the universe is utterly indifferent to a person's survival. Establishment of an ethical code " a philosophical stance " that enables a person to accept the absurdity of living in a world indifferent to them is the ultimate challenge."


"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."



"People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose."


"By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret."



"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."


"You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you."


"I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull."


"IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction."


"We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us."


"When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial."



"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."


"The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born."


"The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair."


"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."


"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."


"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not but rejoices in what he has."


"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."


"T-TrustE-EnthusiasmA-AdjustmentM-Memories."



"I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning."
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