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Life Quotes
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
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"It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be absent during their lifetime, although when they leave our sight we have no more pleasure in them. What tortures us, therefore, is an idea."
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"Walking through life, we spend most of our energy choosing the right shoes."
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"Sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there."
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"It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free."
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"The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our chilhood behind."
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"Life is too short for long-term grudges."
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"Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!"
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"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
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"An architect draws the plans for a new building-but it still has to be built. A composer writes a new piece of music-but it still has to be played. A chef devises a new recipe-but the ingredients still have to be cooked. In the same way, God has given us a blueprint for living-but we must know what it is and then put it into action."
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"The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy."
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"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."
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"You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire."
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"The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom."
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"As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934."
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"Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it."
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"The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia."
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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
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"I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed."
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"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."
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"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."
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"Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind."
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"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
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"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."
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"Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest."
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