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Life Quotes
"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."
70
"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."
Life,
70
"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges."
70
"Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life."
69
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
69
"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."
69
"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
68
"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."
67
"It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life."
67
"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is: are you alive before death?"
67
"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."
67
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
67
"In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life."
66
"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment."
66
"A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it."
66
"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."
65
"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself."
65
"The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said:'Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
65
"All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into."
65
"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
65
"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."
65
"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."
65
"I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom."
64
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
64
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