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Life Quotes


"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."


"I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid."


"There is rarely a chance for life to remain constant."


"You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7."


"In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves."


"Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life."



"Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."


"I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say."


"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment."



"Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality."


"And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own."


"A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention."


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


"True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs."


"Writing isn't necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you coming back is that Zen moment when you enlightened your own self with a few cleverly arranged words and saved yourself a $200 trip to the shrink, by simply buying a #2 pencil."


"Your soul is so bohemian, free and gypsy wild. Come swim with me in the calming sea, let's be mermaids for awhile."


"But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself."


"The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life."


"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"


"The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment."


"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."


"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."
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