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Life Quotes


"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."


"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."


"I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments."


"Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work."


"I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy."


"It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things."


"I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing."


"A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life."


"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."


"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality."


"Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!"


"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role."


"But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines."


"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live."


"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."


"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."


"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself."
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