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Life Quotes
"It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands."
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"The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life."
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"Life is always easier when lived for others, and living for others is the best way I know to live for yourself."
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"Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character."
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"In life we struggle to make sense of it all.When we should just except the way life is and make it better for all concerned."
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"One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone."
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"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
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"She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay."
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"Never forget the life experiences, Aloneness and companionship. Cold and warmth. Hard times and good times. Failure and success. Pain and healing. Planting and harvesting. Poverty and prosperity. Searching and finding. Sorrow and happiness. Tears and joy."
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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."
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"When all is lost, there is still a memory."
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"Houses are cellular walls, they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's."
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"Life is for the loved, not the lonely." She lamented. "Although it's the lonely who try to make the world and its inhabitants less so."
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"I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old."
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"I don't judge a person by the place he or she is. I'm more interested in where that person is going, and the steps they are taking to get there."
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"Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations."
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"The roller coaster is my life; Life is a fast, dizzying game. Life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances; falling over and getting up again. It's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from the "Best."
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"Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said."
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"It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance."
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"Some of the happiest Christians I have met have been life-long sufferers. They have had every reason to sigh and complain, being denied so many privileges and pleasures that they see others enjoy, yet they have found greater cause for gratitude and joy than many who are prosperous, vigorous, and strong."
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"Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift."
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"I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory."
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"Nothing is better than sex and nothing is exactly like it."
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"What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."
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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."
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"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
Life,
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"I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart."
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"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
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"Most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth."
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"Faithfulness is produced by the Holy Spirit in a yielded Christian life."
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