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Life Quotes
"The end is the best part of any story."
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"If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck."
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"I don't like him. He makes me laugh. It'll wrinkle my face."
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"What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing."
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"I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally."
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"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
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"He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as easily lead to the cowardice of McCarthyism as to the heroics of World War II. Men who were both dangerous and promising precisely because of their fundamental innocence; men prone, in the end, to disappointment."
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"People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was."
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"We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time."
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"Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?"
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"Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air. I can see distorted images of happiness and light, even hear muffled laughter, but everything is out of my reach as I lie in suffocating agony. If death is the opposite of living, then I hope death is like floating."
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"You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people."
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"Maybe memories should be left the way they are."
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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
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"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
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"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive."
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"That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on."
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"The greatest act of personal courage is conscientiously to mature, by resolutely striving to achieve self-actualization and self-realization. A person who knows their true self and lives their life in an authentic manner while pursuing their honest passions will lose his misery."
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"Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead."
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"Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives."
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"Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading " in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning."
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"Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle's eye!"
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"Fairy tales are such evil stories for young children. Every time I'm in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man to come trotting into my life (on a horse of course, literally trotting himself...) Then you realize you don't want a long-haired posh-speaking man trotting into your life because he's the one who put you in the bloody mess in the first place."
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"Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose."
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"As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature's greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back."
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"And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble--the heart pain--the world pain. I tell you, my friend, it is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough. . . . Ja! . . . And all the time you are such a fine fellow too! Wie? Was? Gott im Himmel! How can that be? Ha! ha! ha!"'The shadow prowling amongst the graves of butterflies laughed boisterously."
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"Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it."
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"To live the life of God we must have the nature of God."
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"Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded."
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"She'd been in labor for nineteen hours; I completely understood why she wanted to pass the buck. 'You are so beautiful,' her husband crooned, holding up her shoulders.'You are so full of shit,' Lila snarled, but as a contraction settled over her like a net, she bore down and pushed."
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"Cockiness " the state subjective or intuitive state of self-assurance " is a sign of ignorance. Maturity comes with encountering the horrible and learning about what a person can withstand."
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"In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on."
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"Consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ..."
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"Life is what you make out of it consciously."
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"Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."
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