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Life Quotes
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
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"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it."
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"It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt."
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"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
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"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
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"At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live."
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"Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen."
Life,
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"It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this in itself is bearable enough; for we do not weep at their being absent or intending to be absent during their lifetime, although when they leave our sight we have no more pleasure in them. What tortures us, therefore, is an idea."
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"After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave."
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"I've come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one's abode; for man is endowed with a mind which is changeable and and unsettled: nowhere at rest, it darts about and directs its thoughts to all places known and unknown, a wanderer which cannot endure repose and delights chiefly in novelty."
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"When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon."
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"The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it."
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"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
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"Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life."
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"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
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"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
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"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."
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"Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life."
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"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."
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"We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment."
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"A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?"
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"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."
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"India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities."
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"I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die."
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"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own."
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"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
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"Life is only a flicker of melted ice."
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"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."
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"It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free."
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"Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses."
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