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Life Quotes
"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed."
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"The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God-that vast unseen fellowship of men and women throughout the ages who belong to Christ. Paul wrote of “God's household, which is the church of the living God” [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV)."
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"Who would be willing to put up with less than the desired result, if they could afford to have it done properly?"
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"Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too."
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"Within this restless, hurried, modern worldWe took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,And now the white sails of our ship are furled,And spent the lading of our argosy.Wherefore my cheeks before their time are wan,For very weeping is my gladness fled,Sorrow has paled my young mouth's vermilion,And Ruin draws the curtains of my bed.But all this crowded life has been to theeNo more than lyre, or lute, or subtle spellOf viols, or the music of the seaThat sleeps, a mimic echo, in the shell."
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"My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it."
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"He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful."
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"I know a beautiful garden, where there are a great many children in fine little coats, and they go under the trees and gather beautiful apples and pears, cherries and plums; they sing and run about and are as happy as they can be. Sometimes they ride on nice little ponies, with golden bridles and silver saddles. I asked the man whose garden it is, "What little children are these? And he told me, "They are little children who love to pray and learn and are good."
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"Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult."
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"Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you."
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"Going down in history is a dead end pursuit."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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"So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally."
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"He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed."
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"Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons."
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"He doesn't want to step out of the present, this present. Because once he does, there will be college applications and college acceptances (just one will do) and the last of everything (last class, last party, last night, last day, last goodbye), and then the world will change forever and he will go to college and eventually become an adult. That is not what he wants. He does not want those complications, that change. Not now."
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"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
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"Christianity is not an insurance policy against life's ills and troubles."
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"One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, without bothering anybody, until I die.''But what makes you live? With such thoughts, you'll sit without moving, without undertaking anything...''Life won't leave one alone as it is."
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"Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed."
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"What you gain here, you lose on the other side."
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"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
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"Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace."
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"You're safe here. Perfectly safe. That phrase still haunts me. Haunts me because it's always been a lie. It was a lie before they came and it's still a lie. You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything. Otherwise, you're just a walking corpse. You're a zombie."
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"Death is not the end of life, it is only the gateway to eternity."
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"Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin."
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
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"My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn't princess material."
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"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."
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