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Life Quotes
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
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"We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life."
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"But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly."
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"He wasn't allowed to come with me there-my own rule for thislittle adventure.No more.Good-bye, Aspen."
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"A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!"
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"If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!"
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"The process of letting go is an act of accepting."
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"Death is one lover who cannot be spurned."
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"Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective."
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"The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time."
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"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
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"My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still."
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"Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show."
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"Everyone wants to be a princess, but you weren't the first princess in his life. They scrubbed his floors, washed his workout clothes, picked up his dirty socks and dealt with his issues. Always remember that history leaves a pattern of what to expect. A real woman knows that the bible is a motivator, but the real instruction manual is observing the last woman's struggle."
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"When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips."
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"But this, all this, isn't the story I'm trying to tell. This is all past. This is the part of your life where it gets taken over by other people's stories and there's nothing you can do about it except hold on tight and hope you're still alive at the end to take up your own story again. So that's what we did. Me, Mel, and Meredith all moved on, and we're the stories we're living now.Aren't we?"
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"The whole world can be explained in just one sentence. 'What is being discharged (visarjan) is old and what is being charged (sarjan) is new'. If someone is discharging bad behavior but at the same time, has learned from the 'Gnani Purush' [the enlightened one]; he would be charging a higher life form!"
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"A simple journey creates a peaceful life."
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"If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our hearts, starting with our eyes."
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"When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless."
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"Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!"
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"My mom used to say, 'Life isn't fair,'" said Shadow."Of course she did, said Wednesday. "It's one of those things that moms say, right up there with 'If all your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too?'"You stiffed that girl for ten bucks, I slipped her ten bucks, said Shadow, doggedly. "It was the right thing to do.Someone announced that their plane was boarding. Wednesday stood up. "May your choices always be so clear, he said."
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"I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story."
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"Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son."
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"What can we do without pain in front of happiness?"
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"The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple."
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"A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer."
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"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."
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"It's not about the powers, man; it's that we aren't kids anymore. Look what we've been through. Look what we've done. Look at yourself, surfer dude. We've done something none of our parents have even come close to. We didn't take over their boring world; we took over a world about a thousand times tougher. If we walk out of this alive, we won't have to bow our heads to anyone."
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