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Life Quotes



"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."
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"What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look."


"But this is life on earth, you can't have everything."


"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."
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"I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there."


"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."


"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"


"One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate."


"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."


"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."


"What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes."


"Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people."


"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."


"My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life."


"Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right " no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse."


"The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion."


"Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life."



"To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees."


"I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it."


"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
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"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."


"As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do."


"I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life."


"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."


"I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over."


"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."


"As hard as it is and as tired as I am, I force myself to get dinner at least once a week with my girlfriends, or have a sleepover. Otherwise my life is just work."


"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"


"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."
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