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Life Quotes


"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans."


"I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track."


"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."


"All of our relationships and our interactions, the life affirming ones and the challenging ones, show us how far we have come and where we still need to go."


"If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things."
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"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."


"People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations."


"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."


"If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch."


"I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know', I said. 'Tomorrow."


"It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart."


"The day is ending, it's not coming back."


"The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We're lucky to be living now."


"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."


"If life is what you make it, the building blocks are your desire and your passion."


"Life really can become whatever you are prepared to make it."


"America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life."


"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."


"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."


"I believe in times of adversity there's a line that is sometimes drawn, a line that separates your old life from your new. You cross the line, you'll never be the same."


"Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape."


"Just because someone is a keyholder, does not mean they will always help you unlock the door you want to go through " no matter how much you think you deserve to go through it. Sometimes you just have to reach out and take it."


"During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult."


"The universe is eternal; every person appears in the stream of time, and then disappears. The ego does not survive. Life is significant despite that it ends. The products of human life that we cherish " love, happiness, beauty, art, kindness, " have value without being everlasting. We must conquer human fearfulness in order to live a dignified life."


"For a finite being, an infinite path has no meaning!"


"If time is linear, every moment is new! Monotony is just an experience of Ignorance!"


"Losing something happens in a day. An end takes one day. We all seem to focus on that one day, on that ending, rather than on the beautiful story that was created before the end came. We are obsessed with endings, so much so, that we would rather not live at all, than live and then lose. So, we have two choices: to not create our stories because we know that one day they have endings, or, to build our stories and therefore to live, filling the many years with memories and moments! An end takes one day to happen, but life takes place in the moments and in the memories that we choose to feel, to build, to hold. Don't miss out on the years, for the fear of one day."


"Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows."


"The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!"


"Albert, I don't know how long we can keep Sam involved at all, she said."You're upset, Albert replied."Yes, I'm upset. But that's not the point. Sam is out of control. If we're ever going to have a working system we may have to find someone else to play the role of savior.Albert sighed. "Astrid, we don't know what's out there in the night. And maybe you're right that Sam is out of control. But me? I'm really glad it's him out there getting ready to face whatever it is.Albert picked up his omnipresent notebook and left.To a now empty, silent room, Astrid said, "Don't die, Sam. Don't die."


"No person can claim to be anything more or anything less than his or her individual assimilation of a lifelong symposium of inimitable physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual occurrences. Simply put, we each place our own individualized stamp upon the meaning of life. How we live, how we struggle, and how we die reflects what life means to each of us. We are all students of life, we are a product of what we pay attention to, what we observe, and experience, and what subjects arrest our minds."


"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country."


"My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking."


"Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!"


"Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!"
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