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Life Quotes


"But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events."


"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story."


"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak."


"The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life."


"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."



"A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity."


"The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience."


"When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. ['Could the milk man be the devil?']"



"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."


"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it."



"If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool."


"You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you."


"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."


"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence."


"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."


"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."



"Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because deathis a part of 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."


"We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none."


"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet."


"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."


"I feel as if I am being left out, as though I'm some straggler and people can't quite remember to stay back for me."


"So it's back once more, back up the slope.Why do they always ruin my ropewith their cuts?I felt so ready the other day,Had a real foretaste of eternityIn my guts.Spoonfeeding me yet another sipfrom life's cup.I don't want it, won't take any more of it.Let me throw up.Life is medium rare and good, I see,And the world full of soup and bread,But it won't pass into the blood for me,Just goes to my head.It makes me ill, though others it feeds;Do see that I must deny it!For a thousand years from now at leastI'm keeping a diet."


"Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments."


"It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance."


"Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous."


"Self-realization is largely a matter of achieving a person's formative personality definition. People whom lack self-realization oftentimes fail to integrate their desired personality traits into all phases of their life including social life, family life, and work life. In order to achieve satisfaction with oneself, a person must know what they wish for, know how to go about achieving their goals, be capable of recognizing where they now stand, and understand how they must change in order to attain their ultimate visage."


"I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?"


"I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime."
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