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Life Quotes


"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."



"Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury."


"Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free."



"Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere."



"Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up."



"I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general."


"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."



"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
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"We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk " that anyone not walking it with us is being misled."


"I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids."


"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."


"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."


"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."


"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life."


"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."
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"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."


"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."


"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."


"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."


"Humans don't make sense."If you're only now learning that, Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention."


"When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things."


"No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance."


"Age may catch up with you, just never let it over take you."


"Life is too short for long-term grudges."


"That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life."
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