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Life Quotes



"Our job is to bring the dead facts to life."


"We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious."


"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."



"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity."


"Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails."



"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."



"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."


"Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?"


"He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like."


"I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore."


"Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL."


"I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life."



"That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?"


"Some people say 'life is too short,' but yet constantly procrastinating as if life on earth is forever."


"You are part of God's plan and if you stop yourself because you don't think you are not good enough, we lose your unique and needed contribution to the world. Your life was a gift, and what you do with it will be a gift to God."


"When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life."


"I don't even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good chance of winning, while I was traveling through hell."



"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."



"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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"By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!"


"If my journey was so easy, I would have missed out on life's invaluable lessons. From misery I learnt to comfort those in tears, from lack I learnt to give to the needy; from uncertainty I learnt to understand others and from my silence I learnt to speak for the voiceless."


"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."


"If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!"


"Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin."
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