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Life Quotes
"Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research."
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"That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer."
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"There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from."
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"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."
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"We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly."
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"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis."
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"Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there."
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"It's the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much."
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"Success is like a camera. Just focus and concentrate on the objective. See what is your most important goal image for success, and ignore distracting details. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn out, keep at it. Take more shots and be persistent. Focus on making success clearly happen. Use perseverance."
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"You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling."
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"Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth."
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"Life is really simple. There are no complicated rules we must follow. There are no external forces, which dictate how we must lead our lives. There is no fate that prevents us from being who we want to be.We are the ones who often insist that life is complicated. Life is complex with its multidimensional nature. It is never complicated. All complications come from our fears, which we often choose to trust more than the voice of our hearts."
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"Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in."
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"Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there."
Life,
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"Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run."
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"The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us."
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."
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"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them."
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"I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous."
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"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life."
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"Ordinary moments make the life. This is what she knew to be trustworthy and this is what I learned, eventually, from those years we spent together. No leaps or falls. I inhale the little drizzly details of the past and know who I am. What I failed to know before is clearer now, filtered up through time, an experience belonging to no one else, not remotely, no one, anyone, ever. I watch her use the roller to remove lint from her cloth coat. Define coat, I tell myself. Define time, define space."
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"Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor."
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"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
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"I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life."
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"We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre."
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"It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward."
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"Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough."
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"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
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"I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do."
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"We're children. We're supposed to be childish."
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