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Life Quotes
"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"
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"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."
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"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is: are you alive before death?"
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"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins."
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"The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden."
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"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."
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"Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated."
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
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"The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances."
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"To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory."
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"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored."
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"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."
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"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
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"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
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"Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?"
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"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
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"I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more."
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"God's will is that we would be righteous in our living. God is holy, and the whole scheme of redemption has holiness for its goal."
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"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life."
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"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
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"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
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"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
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"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."
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"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges."
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"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."
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"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."
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"We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first."
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