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Life Quotes


"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."


"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."


"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."


"The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:'Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."


"Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'."


"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."


"There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment."


"Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something."


"I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life."
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"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."


"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."


"Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port."


"I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid."


"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."


"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."


"Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself."


"I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed."


"Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things."


"Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold?The tree says to the leaf:"That's the cycle of life. You may think you're going to die, but you live on in me. It's thanks to you that I'm alive, because I can breathe. It's also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing."


"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."



"Life can't be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how."


"We human beings don't realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colours and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, and two ears to hear the words of love. As I found with my ear, no one knows how much power they have in their each and every organ until they lose one."


"One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life."


"Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personalities in America. Afterward she took me aside and told of the emptiness in her life. “My beauty is gone,” she said, “I am getting old, I'm living on alcohol, and I have nothing to live for."


"Hope is a strong encouragement."


"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country."


"What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting."
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