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Life Quotes



"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."


"Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain."



"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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"Three years ago hadn't been the right time for them. Now certainly was."


"The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs."


"I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave."


"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."



"I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was."


"They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary."
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"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."


"In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child."


"Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life."


"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation."


"We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one."
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"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."


"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."


"When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven."


"The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth."


"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."



"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."


"I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means."


"The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life."


"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."


"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."


"Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes."


"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune."
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