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Life Quotes
"I came to see myself one day and it was like looking into a mirror. I came to see that at any given moment, I am both equally ready to stay and to leave. It's like I always have my luggage with me and I can unpack or repack on short notice. I guess that's something you can call a traveler's heart. You are ready to stay with every atom in your body; but you are also ready to leave that way. You're not afraid of forever but you're also not afraid of nothing at all."
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"Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!"
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"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials."
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"Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance."
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"Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house."
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"Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night."
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"In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'"
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"Your persistent deep driving desires and your intentional actions will become your reality."
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"Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility."
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"In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories."
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"Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves."
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"Life is meant to be shared and fully lived."
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"Jest when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die."
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"Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is."
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"Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away."
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"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
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"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
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"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
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"If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made."
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"I have nothing to lose. I keep all my valuables in a safe."
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"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse."
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"Time, Ms. McHenry,' Townsend said. 'It can be a cruel, cruel thing."
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"The reality of the mind can be one hundred percent different than the reality of the reality!"
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"The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful."
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"Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us."
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"I'm cold and clammy and hot at the same time, yet I'm free. I lift my head and the autumn breeze feels good against my skin. Free. I'm officially outside the box. I'm free. Free is terrifying and open and it's similar to being a bit lost-but it still feels...free."
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"I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave."
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"It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day."
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"No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality."
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"Every plant, tree, and animal is a blessing and every person has a purpose for living. Courage, curiosity, and generosity produce noble spirits. Enduring life honorably results in wisdom. Knowledge passed down from one generation to the next along with humankind's tradition of performing charitable and self-sacrificing deeds creates principled legacies for future generations to emulate."
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"We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising."
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