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Life Quotes
"It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially."
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"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
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"Imagine yourself near the end of your life. You are relaxing in a rocking chair reflecting on the decision you presently want to make. As the older, wiser you thinks about the outcome of your choice, ask yourself three simple questions.1. Did it cause harm?2. Did it bring about good?3. How did it shape the person I became?The Rocking Chair Test helps you to take a long view of your options. After imagining your answers to those questions, you should know better which way to go."
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"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness."
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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
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"After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life."
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"When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn't any reclaiming it or revising it."
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"First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety."
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"It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and no one can stop him."
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"She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful."
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"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
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"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel."
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"Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye."
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"This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want."
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"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end."
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"But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity."
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"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life."
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"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."
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"Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
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"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
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"I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do."
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"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
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"I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism."
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"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
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