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Life Quotes


"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."



"I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do."


"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."


"If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life."



"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome."


"I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy."


"Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss."



"My book collection is primarily in America, since that's where I've lived most of my life."



"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."


"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."



"When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?"


"Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe."



"They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life."


"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."


"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."



"A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life."


"I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician."



"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise."


"Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will."


"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."


"What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player."


"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."


"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."


"Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being."
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