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Life Quotes



"One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is."


"Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards."


"It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is."
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"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."


"The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves."


"Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us."


"No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?"


"You can spend a lifetime trying to erase memories. It doesn't change the fact that they took place. Acceptance is the key."


"Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh."


"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."


"Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from."


"But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess."


"The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life."


"I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people."


"Death is easy, living difficult."


"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind."


"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried."What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all."


"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."


"Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible."


"There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way."


"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."


"You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave."


"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."


"Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty."


"There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either."


"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."


"I feel as if I am being left out, as though I'm some straggler and people can't quite remember to stay back for me."


"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."


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


"Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself."


"The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious."


"I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax."



"When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of 'interest' and 'attention', so long as we focus on the 'singular moments' and the 'appealing details' in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. ['Lost the global story.']"


"The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!"


"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."
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