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Life Quotes


"Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities."


"In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream."


"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."



"Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length."


"You don't look well," he pronounced."Indigestion," I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue."


"In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love."


"One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone's motivation to continue with a difficult challenge."


"You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking."


"Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy."


"The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself."


"It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it . . .The fact always precedes the faith."



"In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words-or perhaps someone else's-before slipping back into darkness as our series of unfortunate events comes to an end."


"I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?"


"Creating the good life is like following a recipe; specific ingredients are required to guarantee the promised results and each has to be carefully selected and added in the right quantity and sequence. If you get it right, the outcome is guaranteed. If you change or alter the ingredients, the outcome changes."


"I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin."


"You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead."


"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."


"Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly..."


"QUINCEFrancis Flute, the bellows-mender.FLUTEHere, Peter Quince.QUINCEFlute, you must take Thisby on you.FLUTEWhat is Thisby? a wandering knight?QUINCEIt is the lady that Pyramus must love.FLUTENay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."


"Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval . . .There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God's voice to the inner man."



"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess."


"There are many irritations in life. They become prime opportunities for Satan to lead us into evil passion. Keep anger clear of bitterness, spite, or hatred."


"Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time."



"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."


"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."


"But in the Gulf you got time. And I'm figuring all the time. I've got to think right all the time. I can't make a mistake. Not a mistake. Not once. Well, I got something to think about now all right. Something to do and something to think about besides wondering what the hell's going to happen. Besides wondering what's going to happen to the whole damn thing."


"The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."


"It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh."


"Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves."


"Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries."



"Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk."


"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."


"A feistiness of spirit girds us in the most treacherous of moments. A metamorphosis of spirit often occurs after a person conscientiously surveys the resultant outcome of surviving a momentous ordeal and they transfigure personal heartache into a magnanimous manner of living in a just and righteous manner."


"Superstition is the poetry of life."


"Don't panic and carry a towel."



"If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory."
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