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Life Quotes


"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."


"Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober."


"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."


"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."


"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies."


"I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed."


"We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free."


"We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life."


"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."


"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."


"Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life."


"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."


"Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases."


"Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences."


"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."


"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you."


"I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times."


"Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation."


"Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind."


"All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people."


"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."


"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."


"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."
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