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Life Quotes


"He was thirteen then, Elijah almost seven. Now, ten years later, Elijah realizes he's older than Danny was. That all of those changes have happened to him, too. The changes that nobody has any say over. The biology-"growing and "up as a physical matter. The changes after-Elijah has to believe they're a matter of choice. Looking at Danny used to be like looking at the future. Now looking at Danny is like looking at a future he doesn't want."


"Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best."


"Alarm clocks are the bane of humanity. Sleep inertia, the decline in motor dexterity, subjective feeling of grogginess, and impaired state of awareness and mental performance is normal after awakening from even a light sleep. Scientific studies reveal that abruptly awakening from a deep sleep amplifies the severity and duration of sleep inertia."


"Astrology can never give you the answers to life's deepest questions-especially where you will spend eternity. Commit your life to Christ. It will give you joyous confidence that your future is securely in His hands-tomorrow and forever."


"To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."


"Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns."


"Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It is like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. Things will go where they are supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it is time for them to be hurt. Life is like that."


"No one wants to occupy a black hole of sadness and despair or slip on the tight rope that separates sanity from insanity, and reside in a vortex devoid of reality. I entered the world as a freeman and desire to escape a state of existential vertigo. I yearn to discover a synthesizing spirit of my being and hold my head high, free of doubt, and devoid of fear. I wish to foment the cerebral energy to stave off premature destruction and forevermore blunt an intolerable state of anguish."


"Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy."


"We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion."


"No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been."


"When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!"


"The Bible teaches that life does not end at the cemetery. There is a future life."



"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."


"I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay."


"The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years."


"I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it."


"I can go on the road - and I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued int he presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both."


"For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves."


"Dreams turn to dust in light of day."


"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that."


"Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person."


"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
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"After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy."


"It takes awhile, but eventually you realize they lost you. You didn't lose them."


"What is it about those unresolved endings that cause you to question every decision when you're trying to move forward?"
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