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Life Quotes


"I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me."


"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks-we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"


"I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist."


"If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty of your love. Remind me of important things -- friends, flowers, fields of cool grass under bare feet, blue skies above, rain on my face, and freedom... freedom to make a difference, freedom to be me. Pull out your butterfly net and remind me of these things, and most of all... your undying love."



"I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling."


"The lawlessness of frontier life in America has been pictured as a remarkable phenomenon. In reality, it was the natural consequence of indiscriminate mixing of volatile substances."



"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."



"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."


"Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality."


"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."



"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life."


"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."


"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."


"The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today."



"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."


"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that."


"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."


"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."


"I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love."


"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."



"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about."


"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."


"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."
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"Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things."



"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life."


"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."


"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
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