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Life Quotes


"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."



"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed."


"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life."


"There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."


"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations."
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"I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it."


"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."



"Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?"


"I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say."


"If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things."
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"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."


"One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living."


"The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. She just hoped that this time she was right."


"People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person's manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person's mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle."


"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man."



"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."



"Not everyone believes in ghost's, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?" She had shaken her head slowly. "Men and women who can't get over the past, Aunt Evie said. "That's what ghost's are. Not them. She flapped her arm toward the coffin which stood on its bands beside the coincidentally fresh grave. "The dead are dead. We bury them, and buried they stay."


"The choices you make in life creates your destiny."



"His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere."


"Life really can become whatever you are prepared to make it."


"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."


"At the end of the day, we all crawl, exhausted, to some doorstep. Some crawl to the doorstep of their new home, the one they have sought for miles without giving up their goal, exhausted by their determination. And others crawl to the doorstep of their prison, the one they have sought to escape, but gave up, exhausted by their determination. And we all enter our new home with a sigh of relief and put our feet up. Some rejoice. Others grow bitter. And yet, we are tired just the same."


"The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed."


"I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me."


"Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen."


"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."


"Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from."


"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."


"Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize."



"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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