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Life Quotes


"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."


"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for."


"I ran into Ellen at a photo shoot. She took my breath away. That had never happened to me in my life."
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"Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure."


"Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good."


"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."


"I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments."


"Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life."


"The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people."


"So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life."


"Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning."


"I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind."


"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."


"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."


"Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children."


"Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared."


"The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America."


"The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations."


"I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."


"There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life."


"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."


"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life."


"Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales."


"But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd-His glassy essence-like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal."


"With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all."


"Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend."
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