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Life Quotes



"The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense."


"Everything that happens in your life is beautiful. Find yourself in the appreciation of life."


"I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before."


"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."


"We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. But all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective . . . Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes."


"There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor."


"Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them."


"One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life."


"Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell."


"The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles."


"My act has always reflected what's going on in my life."


"It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security."


"As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills."


"While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit."


"For of those to whom much is given, much is required."


"Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain."


"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."


"Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action."


"It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious."


"You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it."


"I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married."


"Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong."


"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."


"Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be."
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"There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms."


"Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows."


"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."


"I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for."


"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone."


"There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable."


"Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor."


"I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone."
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