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Life Quotes
"We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first."
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"Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy."
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"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."
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"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
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"It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else."
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"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that."
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"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
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"Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character."
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"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment."
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"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."
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"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
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"Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened."
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"Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it."
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"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!"
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"The tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all."
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"The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue."
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"A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it."
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"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
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"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me."
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"In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life."
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"Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on."
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"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
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"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."
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"Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich."
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"It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life."
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"For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad."
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"India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West."
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"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."
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"Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice."
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"Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
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"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."
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