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Life Quotes


"The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden."


"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."


"I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom."


"The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must “by faith” accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!"



"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."


"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."



"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."


"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."


"We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire."


"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
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"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next."


"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
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"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 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."



"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."
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"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."


"Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest."


"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."


"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."


"Life is simply the reification of the process of living."


"I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach."
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"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."


"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
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