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Life Quotes


"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."


"Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose."


"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down."


"No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself."


"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."


"He had been frightened and so he had been vehement."


"We are not sure whether the world ever physically comes to extinction. It may or it may not. But, the moment a person dies everything comes to extinction for him. His world is devastated.I believe that one should fully live the life before it comes to extinction."


"Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be."
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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."



"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more."


"What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life."


"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another."


"No matter what, its always an opportunity."


"Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms."


"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."



"It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses."


"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."



"There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin."


"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."


"Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh."


"I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people."



"The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life."


"I think that by fearing death, you are actually fearing life because it is a part of life. People are born and people die."


"Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes."


"In life we all have choices."
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