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Life Quotes


"Life comes once, live wisely."


"Because everything worth having hurts."



"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."


"I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened."


"I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now."


"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."


"Right thinking is your best light in this dark universe, it is your best hope in your worst hopelessness!"


"Life is the childhood of our immortality."


"There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance."


"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."


"Oblige me by telling me where I am.""That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home."


"Becoming “new” in Christ is a wonderful beginning, but it isn't the end of pain or problems in our lives. It is the beginning of our facing up to them. Being a Christian involves a lifetime of hard work, dedicated study, and difficult decisions."


"Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself."


"Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one."


"A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out."


"Obscurity and a competence-that is the life that is best worth living."


"A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long."


"People cannot live forever, but memories can. Never pass up an opportunity to create awesome memories with your special ones."


"The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on."


"Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests."


"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."


"To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job."


"There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live-and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!"



"Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do without her fussing and making you do it? Everyone needs a mom. And a mom knowns this. And it gives her a sense of purpose. You get it?"


"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."


"Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise."


"Too weird to live, too rare to die!"


"There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life,' Eri finally said. 'And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn't anticipated arises instead. It's not that easy to get free of them. That's true for you - and for me, too."
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