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Life Quotes
"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."
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"My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?"
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"It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares."
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"I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."
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"Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life."
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"I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream."
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"No matter what, its always an opportunity."
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"I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay."
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"Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can."
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"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it."
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"Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead."
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"The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier."
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"The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door."
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"Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best."
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"If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit."
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"The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about."
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"We don't truly appreciate what we have until it's gone. We don't really appreciate something until we have experienced some events; we don't really appreciate our parents until we ourselves have become parents. Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted."
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"Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play."
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"The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives."
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"Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life."
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"Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall."
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"The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others."
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"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."
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"This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape."
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"I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life."
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"Kvothe looked at Bast for a long moment. "Oh Bast, he said softly to his student. His smile was gentle and sad. "I know what sort of story I'm telling. This is no comedy."This is the end of the story, Bast. We all know that. Kvothe's voice was matter-of-fact, as casual as if he were describing yesterday's weather. "I have led an interesting life, and this reminiscence has a certain sweetness to it. But . . .Kvothe drew a deep breath and let it out gently. ". . . but this is not a dashing romance. This is no fable where folk come back from the dead. It's not a rousing epic meant to stir the blood. No.We all know what kind of story this is."
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"Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success."
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"I can't change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it."
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"There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either."
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"Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose."
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"It's easier to dismiss ghosts in the daylight."
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"He should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to change what was unchangeable, to plan what was now useless, to be the architect of the irrevocable past."
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