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Life Quotes


"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."


"People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life."



"I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at."


"A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow."


"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."


"If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?"


"Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone."


"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."


"The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature."


"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."


"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."



"Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life."



"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life."


"She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's."


"Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement."


"I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it."


"One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life."


"Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer."


"Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life."


"In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound."
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"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."


"The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces."


"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."


"It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth."


"In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities."
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