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"The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us."

"The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us."

Abhysheq Shukla, Indian Author

Life, Choice, Impact, Reflection

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"This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free " and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over."

"This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free " and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over."

A.J. Darkholme, American Author

Life, Freedom, Choice, Empowerment

45

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

Anne Baxter, American Actress

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"This was the way he had to go, he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer."

"This was the way he had to go, he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Life, Choice, Fate, Truth

45

"All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever."

"All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever."

Tracey Emin, English Artist

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"Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself."

"Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself."

James Baldwin, American Novelist

Life, Loss, Affection, Isolation, Self

45

"Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been."

"Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Life, Youth, Night, Moon, Stars

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"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."

Federico Fellini, Italian Director

Life, Beginning, End, Passion

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"When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve."

"When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve."

Pat Summerall, American Celebrity

Life, Time, Gratitude, Chance

45

"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."

"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."

Armand Assante, American Actor

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"Life isn't long enough for love and art."

"Life isn't long enough for love and art."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Life, Love, Art, Time

45

"I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life."

"I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Life, Talent, Ability, Skill

45

"Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people's breath in the air. There was even something to look forward to when school started - renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. Fall was hot-supper time with everything to eat one missed in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it."

"Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thunk pomp of leather and young bodies on the practice field near her house made her think of bands and cold Coca-Colas, parched peanuts and the sight of people's breath in the air. There was even something to look forward to when school started - renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. Fall was hot-supper time with everything to eat one missed in the morning when too sleepy to enjoy it."

Harper Lee, American Novelist

Life, Memory, Observation, Happiness

45

"My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying."

"My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying."

Michael C. Hall, American Actor

Life, Mother, Trying

45

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."

"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."

Antoine Rivarol, French Journalist

Life, Complaining, Future, Man

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"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art."

"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Life, Art, Sadness

45

"Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life."

"Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life."

Devon Werkheiser, American Actor

Life, Hope, Acting, First

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"Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it."

"Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it."

James Baldwin, American Novelist

Life, Experience, Innocence, Reflection

45

"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."

"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more."

"I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more."

Shirley Manson, Scottish Musician

45

"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy."

"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

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"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."

"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."

Pierre de Coubertin, French Leader

Life, Idea, Possibility, Reality

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"Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life."

"Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life."

Cyril Connolly, English Journalist

Life, Vulgarity

45

"I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life."

"I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life."

Major Taylor, American Athlete

Life, Sympathy, Deep, Feeling

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"I never worked in an office in my life."

"I never worked in an office in my life."

Jack Vance, American Author

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"Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal."

"Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal."

Martin Amis, British Author

Life, Sense, Will, Writer

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"The whole of eternity is present now. We apprehend eternity through our senses and mental imagination. We can never recapture lost time. Memory allows us to taste the scintillating experience of living by recollecting our past in a series of sequential personal events and an orderly arrangement of a linked series of cultural happenings. Writing our personal story calls for us to remember the sensation of what it entails to live tactilely before losing lucidity of the mind."

"The whole of eternity is present now. We apprehend eternity through our senses and mental imagination. We can never recapture lost time. Memory allows us to taste the scintillating experience of living by recollecting our past in a series of sequential personal events and an orderly arrangement of a linked series of cultural happenings. Writing our personal story calls for us to remember the sensation of what it entails to live tactilely before losing lucidity of the mind."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Life, Eternity, Time, Memory

45

"When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life."

"When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life."

Artie Lange, American Actor

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"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."

"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."

Hugh Mackay, Australian Psychologist

Life, Decision, Will

45

"Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can."

"Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can."

Siobhan Fahey, British Musician

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"Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."

"Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

Life, Emotion, Mystery, Music

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"If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man."

"If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man."

Little Richard, American Musician

Life, Man, Want

45

"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair."

"Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair."

Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Sculptor

Life, Now, Reality, Rest

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"That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it."

"That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it."

Anderson Cooper, American Journalist

Life, End, Suicide, Thinking

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"If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life."

"If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life."

Tobey Maguire, American Actor

Life, Time, People

45

"He that has much to do will do something wrong."

"He that has much to do will do something wrong."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Life, Work, Mistake, Action, Effort

45

"We stay watching the fire, which probably is just a fire, but we watch it together. Me and my friends. And there'll be a tomorrow, of course there will, when it all begins again, but right now is almost a kind of loop for me, something to feel on the inside of, but this time it's good. It's a loop with my friends that would even be a pretty damn good forever."

"We stay watching the fire, which probably is just a fire, but we watch it together. Me and my friends. And there'll be a tomorrow, of course there will, when it all begins again, but right now is almost a kind of loop for me, something to feel on the inside of, but this time it's good. It's a loop with my friends that would even be a pretty damn good forever."

Patrick Ness, American Author

Life, Friendship, Presence, Contentment, Happiness

45

"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."

"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people."

Hu Shih, Chinese Philosopher

Life, Society, People, Concern

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"Very often, we let little things spoil some of our most important treasures-our Moment, our Day, our Life."

"Very often, we let little things spoil some of our most important treasures-our Moment, our Day, our Life."

R.V.M., Indian Author

Life, Moment, Day, Treasure

45

"There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke."

"There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Life, Truth, Reality, Growth

45

"People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you."

"People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Life, Trust, People, Road

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"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."

"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."

Jimmy Breslin, American Entertainer

Life, Beer, Job, Newspapers

45

"I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),..."

"I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),..."

Stephen King, American Author

Life, Happiness, Truth, Inspirational, Today

45

"Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman's appearance."

"Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman's appearance."

Ellen J. Barrier, American Poet

Life, Beauty, Appearance, Observation, Appreciation

45

"I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life."

"I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life."

Peter Shaffer, English Playwright

Life, EnglFirst, Years

45

"So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school."

"So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school."

Kevin Mitnick, American Celebrity

45

"I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them."

"I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them."

Sting, British Musician

Life, Work, Body, Songs

45

"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."

"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."

Joyce Maynard, American Writer

Life, Thought, Contempt, Nothing

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