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Life Quotes



"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."


"Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds."


"I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon."


"Don't say deep things to shallow people and don't talk about shallow things with the deep people!"


"I believe in 'Positives' not Negatives the only thing about Alcohol I'm Powerless over is those Damn Taxes."


"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."


"It must start by knowing Time = Life. Spending your life on impulse will lead to a broke life, just like impulse buying leads to an empty wallet! How much value you place on your time reflects in the activities that consume your time."


"Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story."


"But when i¬rst the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the ei¬€ect of all miracles " they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know " that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the cord of monotony is stretched most tight, it it breaks with a sound like song."


"There are blue diamonds born to the world and given to those who only want glass crystals. There are blue roses born to the world yet given to those who only want daisies. Blue diamond, don't cry because they want glass crystals. Blue rose, don't bleed because they see only the daisies. You were formed in the bedroom of the gods, you were conceived in the garden of the eternal!"


"Living above the world, each discovering his own weight, seeing his face brighten and darken with the day, the night, each of the four inhabitants of the house was aware of a presence that was at once a judge and a justification among them. The world, here, became a personage, counted among those from whom advice is gladly taken, those in whom equilibrium has not killed love."


"Waves in an ocean remind us that just as they come and go, we too will. What matters is did we make a good splash before leaving?"


"Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!"


"Life can be a real bitch at times and force us to destroy what we created. The important thing is to believe in what we created, to believe in the magic of the moment when we found those people in our lives, keep fighting until life bows down to our wishes and lets them be a part of our existence."


"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."


"She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it."


"Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else."


"When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises."


"The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inherent fault in our nature, man's bias is on the side of error. In our willful desire to live independently of God, we have severed the lifeline that flows from the source of all life."


"Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there."


"Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything." "Yes, it meant something. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?"


"You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be."



"We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around."


"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it."


"Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?"


"No food is edible, if you don't feel like eatingStanding is incredible, if you hate sitting."


"Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!"


"Life is a game and you are the player. As you master the game, so you also create it."


"When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine."


"If nothing excites you and nothing makes you wonder, you are going to miss all of the wonderful things that life can offer."


"When men do not know their assignment on earth they kill themselves psychologically and emotionally, wallowing in different careers and meddling in dreams of others. They become restless and engage in unhealthy competition - living unfulfilled lives."
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