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Life Quotes


"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."


"I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important."


"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."


"When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out."


"One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying."


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


"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."


"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."



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



"The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying."


"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."


"The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research."



"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."


"An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match."


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


"My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence."


"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."


"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."


"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."



"Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life."


"There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given."



"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage."


"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted."


"I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life."



"Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody."


"School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them."


"I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems."


"I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me."
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