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Life Quotes


"Life wants you to be complete unto yourself, generally enjoy and expand consciousness, open, explore, love."


"I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish."


"He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memories from those moments stays with us forever and turns into a country of memory to which we try to go back for the rest of our lives without ever being able to."


"My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life."


"We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold another's handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But like children,We sabotage everythingFor nothing satisfies usUntil life crumbles usAnd we are no more."


"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."


"So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school."


"The words of this Book have a way of filling in the missing pieces, of bridging the gaps, of turning the tarnished colors of our life to jewel-like brilliance. Learn to take your every problem to the Bible. Within its pages you will find the correct answer."


"In a democracy, when the traffic light is red for freedoms, don't ever stop, don't ever wait! Refuse the red light, ignore it, break the rules and move forward! It is always legitimate to challenge fascism for every nation in the world as long as this challenge is nonviolent! Because violence means using the same vulgar, the same evil methods of fascism! Don't behave like a dog when fighting against a dog!"


"Don't let the burdens and hardships of this lifedistract you or discourage you, but keep your eyes firmly fixed on what God has promisedat the end of our journey: heaven itself."


"A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire."


"Let your feet Take you places, let them remind you of the beauty your eyes can't see."


"If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth."


"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."


"It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave."
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"Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away."


"Your dream is to feel good, God's dream is for you to do good."


"It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live."
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"I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime."


"Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences."


"Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find."


"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity."


"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."


"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."


"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was."


"To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems."


"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."


"You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life."
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