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Life Quotes



"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."


"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."


"Today our churches are filled, but how many are actually practicing Christianity in daily life?"


"But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it."
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"They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey."



"If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you."


"You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind."


"Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated."


"Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it."


"Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow."


"There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins."



"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."


"The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:'Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."



"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."


"Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?"


"If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out."


"And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were going to have in Frisco."



"We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first."


"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."


"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."


"It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life."



"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."


"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."


"I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more."


"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life."
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