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Life Quotes
"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."
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"Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."
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"Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders."
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"A military life has ever comported with my inclination."
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"Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you."
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"In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings."
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"That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life."
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"The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing."
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"Inspirational people weren't meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!"
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"I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled."
Life,
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"Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one."
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"Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator."
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"He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
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"A dreamlike reality always looks like a real dream!"
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"The road to Hell is always shiny and alluring."
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"Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters. An' now his dead, an' that don't matter..."
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"Move on, don't let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on."
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"One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors."
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"Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize."
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"The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!"
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"Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am."
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"Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair."
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"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division."
Life,
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"So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on."
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"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
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"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life."
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"To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down."
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"The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something."
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"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work."
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"Keeping it all normal and keeping us together is my first priority. Then I fit films into my life."
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"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."
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"We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life."
Life,
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"I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life."
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