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Life Quotes


"Death was kind. He drew a sharp breath. 'But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child."


"It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know."


"Do you want to know what God's will is for you? It is for you to become more and more like Christ. This is spiritual maturity, and if you make this your goal, it will change your life."


"The goal of a child's life is maturity-and the goal of a Christian's life is spiritual maturity."


"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."



"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."


"I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life."


"I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in."


"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."


"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity."


"It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life."


"It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage."


"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."


"You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life."



"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."


"I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk."


"John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then."


"Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses."


"The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls."


"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."


"Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune."


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


"I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian."



"The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe."


"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."
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