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Life Quotes


"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."


"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."


"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."


"The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience."


"Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'"


"I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you."


"I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house."


"Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself."


"I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time."


"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."


"It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young."
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"I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone."


"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."


"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
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"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."


"I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life."


"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."


"What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."


"I was thinking... that this isn't casual for me."



"You will be able to live as your authentic self when you find that infinite source of energy and that mind, bright and shining like the sun. Then you won't need to become anyone other than yourself. You won't need to depend on externals for your health and happiness, and you won't need to look outside yourself to find passion and hope for life."
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