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Life Quotes


"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."


"Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance."


"He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?"


"So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him. He talked to barmaids, to almost any woman, but there was that dark, strained look in his eyes, as if he were hunting something.Everything seemed so different, so unreal. There seemed no reason why people should go along the street, and houses pile up in the daylight. There seemed no reason why these things should occupy the space, instead of leaving it empty. His friends talked to him: he heard the sounds, and he answered. But why there should be the noise of speech he could not understand."


"One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you."


"Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea."


"Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission."


"No lake so still but it has its wave.No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.I would change things for you if I could, As I can't you must take them as they are."


"It wasn't worth it, but at the time it was. And that's all that mattered."


"A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life."



"If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities."


"It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living."



"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."


"Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible."


"The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don't come from comfort zones."


"Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life-an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won't have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life."



"I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life."


"Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not willingly go to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone said, “Salvation is free, but not cheap.” It cost Jesus His life."


"There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life."


"Jesus worked all His life. But the greatest work that Jesus did was not in the carpenter's shop . . .His greatest work was achieved in those three dark hours on Calvary . . . dying for us."


"Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!"



"There's never any ability to plan a personal life."


"Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?"


"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."


"The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one day from another, hardly one place from another. Nothing was distinct or distinguishable. Often he lost himself for an hour at a time, could not remember what he had done."


"Over the years I have realized it's not the people who come into your life but the choices they force you to make gives the direction to your life."
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