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Life Quotes
"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
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"The sun will rise whether you like it or not, whether you oppose it or not, whether you care about it or not! Some things will happen whatever you think and whatever you feel about them!"
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"Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death."
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"All the problems and challenges make life interesting. It makes the living worthwhile. If everything follows a straight order, we lose our interest out of life."
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"Nothing in life was as ugly as death."
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"Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it's right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of its existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering - unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality."
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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."
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"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life."
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"Don't JustDon't just learn, experience.Don't just read, absorb.Don't just change, transform.Don't just relate, advocate.Don't just promise, prove.Don't just criticize, encourage.Don't just think, ponder.Don't just take, give.Don't just see, feel.Don't just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen.Don't just talk, act.Don't just tell, show.Don't just exist, live."
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"But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today."
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"You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body."
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"If You Really Feel Beloved Pain Then Do Not Repeat Things Which cause of Pain Again."
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"My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, "And to think I was always worried that you didn't have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings."
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"A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone."
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
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"Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us."
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"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
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"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."
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"Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!"
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"In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain."
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"We are drawn to repetition. We can watch the tide rolling for hours into shore. The clouds skittering across the sky. We can listen to the pulsing beat of bongo drums and are drawn magnetically to the slap, slap, slap of a girl being chastised. The human is a mystery, even too himself."
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"If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship."
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"After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration."
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"Most probably your belief system is screwed up. And so were your ancestors, before you. And now, maybe so are you. Overcome it, you!"
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"College is a blossoming new world of genital opportunity."
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"Time is not money because it never returns."
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"I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay."
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"The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding."
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"If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up."
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"It's your life-but only if you make it so."
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"It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck."
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"How did my world get so small?"
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"Listen-I want to run all my life, screaming at the top of my lungs. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life."
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"I'm a million different things every day of the week."
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"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."
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"Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution."
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"A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning."
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"What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter."
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"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
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"If the willingness is there, you can graciously fulfill your dream."
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