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Life Quotes


"Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two."


"I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really."


"I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be."


"Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be."


"It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life."



"They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose."


"I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack."


"I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person."


"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive."


"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."


"Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter."


"I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away."


"The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament."


"The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot."


"Most people live their life around what other people do."


"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."


"The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life."


"I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale."
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"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."


"Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period."


"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you."


"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone."


"By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves."


"I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another."
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"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."
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