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Life Quotes


"If you are a hope for someone, that's very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that's excellent!"


"Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!"


"What you do when nobody is there is your true you!"


"When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything!"


"Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!"


"Nature gave you brothers and sisters and you have no right to choose who should become your relative. But the good news is that you have the right to choose your friends. You determine who to be free with and who to fire out."


"If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!"


"In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race."


"The most perfect magic for a child is the touch of a loving hand!"


"How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell."



"I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do."


"If one door is closed, find another open door."


"The medal from an old grappling tournament will not serve me today, but the courage I developed in its acquisition will. By investing in yourself, by using all endeavors as a vehicle to shape who we are, we exist in the present moment with a lifetime of growth behind us. I have loved many vehicles throughout the years, Jiu Jitsu more than any other, but the vehicle has, and always will, be a distant second to the driver."


"We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry."



"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."


"When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!"


"Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren't an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. We are fallen creatures living in a fallen world that has been twisted and corrupted by sin, and we all share in its brokenness. Most of all, we share in its tragic legacy of disease and death."


"Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from others is often that fulfillment of what we believe we require for happiness. However, many of us will raise the requirements so high that we can't even reach them or better yet, realize that we could find that expectation met by our own introspection and action."


"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."


"I looked at my life and for the first time felt like I could hold it all. That I didn't need to let go of anything in order to be whole. That even those things I'd been clinging to had a place in my freedom. That every single thing played its role."



"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world."



"One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future."


"Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!"


"If you keep doing only the things you can handle, you will not be able to push the borders of impossibilities! Try to do the things which are beyond your powers; change your frontiers, create new ones! And then attack the new frontiers!"


"Listening to a book and in the same time playing chess is one of the best decision ever made."


"Your opinion is not my reality."


"I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow."


"The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather."


"Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow."


"O gentle Romeo If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay So thou wilt woo: but else not for the world."


"The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day."


"I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just sort of POOF found myself there and there I was with a gigantic Belgian waffle in my hands, standing on a sidewalk in Belgium!"


"Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement."
Life,


"Never laugh at the fate of others, you are the next."
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