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Life Quotes
"My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons."
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"To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow."
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"Now I just want it to end. I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending."
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"There are no victims in life, we are all volunteers. Our decisions create our experiences."
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"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
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"I'm always writing or playing because that is my life."
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"The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious."
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"Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...", will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life."
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"Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person's quest to attain self-realization."
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"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."
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"I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles."
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"Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands."
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"The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority."
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"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
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"I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter."
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"Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change."
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"Turns out making a dramatic exit is a lot harder when you have to stand there and wait another twenty minutes for a boat to dock."
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"Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life."
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"I remembered those frantic seconds when I'd thought all I loved and knew, all that was Sydney Sage, would be lost from this world. My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil. We'd destroyed it, but it was terrifying how touch and go it all had been. At any moment, the Strigoi could have gained the advantage and killed one or all of us. Life and death were inextricably bound together, and we wavered between them. But we'd triumphed over death tonight. We were alive, and the world was beautiful. Life was beautiful, and I refused to waste mine."
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"The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise...."
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"One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life."
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"Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive."
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"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
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"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."
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"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country."
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"He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself."
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"Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find."
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"My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!"
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"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
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"I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother."
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"If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was."
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"I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life."
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