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Life Quotes


"We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way, this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!"


"If they do kill me I shall never die another death."


"In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all."



"To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life."


"By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths.These are worth it. These are what I have come for."


"Who gives fuck... does one die or one win... both in the end are in the graveyard... as for now I will focus on if you don't understand me probably is for good."


"Every circumstance is a channel of miracles."


"I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished."


"We will be judged according to our ability. The retired couple who count the offering every Sunday, never divulging the amount anyone in the congregation contributes, will not be tested in the same way as the millionaire who wants an inscription on the stained glass window, so everyone will know who donated it. Some of the most severe tests will be given to the [preachers] for the way in which they handled the Word of God. There will be no reward for leading others astray in lifestyle or in doctrine through false teaching."



"If youth knew if age could."


"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude."



"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."


"The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God's most selfish children would steal God's greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death.This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick.Only God has the right to surprise His children with death."


"Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear."


"Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth."


"Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality - not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure."



"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek."



"I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that."


"A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow!"


"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly."


"Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?"


"Like madness is the glory of this life."



"I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art."


"Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be."


"The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons."


"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round."


"What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions."


"Here's a nice image for a life in balance, she said. "You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass."I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces."


"The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing and if we do not use the gifts they bring they carry them as silently away."
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