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Life Quotes
"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."
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"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air."
Life,
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"Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions."
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"The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal."
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"And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which only an author from the dead could adequately tell."
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"She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. You get one of those trolleys which simply will not go in the direction you push it and end up just having to buy completely different stuff. What do you do with it? What do you do with the recipe? She didn't know."
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"I know there are days when even one single positive thought feels like too much effort, but you must develop an unconditional love for life. You must never lose your childish curiosity for the possibilities in every single day. Who you can be, what you can see, what you can feel and where it can lead you. Be in love with your life, everything about it. The sadness and the joys, the struggles and the lessons, your flaws and strengths, what you lose and what you gain."
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"You are not responsible for the actions of others, only for your own."
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"If you can't control it, you will be the toy of your own mind!"
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"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"
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"Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
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"The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."
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"Living to create an earthly legacy is a short - sighted goal."
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"I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they'd met me."
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"Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side."
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"But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?"
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"It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things."
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"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality."
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"A Killer is the best friend... - WTF!???"
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"I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them."
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"You were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster."
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"Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!"
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"Time changes, that's why our lives change."
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"Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude."
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"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."
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"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."
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"I am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which this universe expresses itself."
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"Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems)."
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"I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance. It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw everyday and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever - that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. (...) The time at length arrives when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished."
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"They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him."
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
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