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Life Quotes
"I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting."
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"It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth."
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"I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life."
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"It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life."
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"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."
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"We may travel the world over to find a good spot,But if we are blind to search within, we find it not."
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"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
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"I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life."
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"We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction."
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"People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design, there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own."
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"There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself."
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"I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say."
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"In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all."
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"The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't."
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"There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if even that. It's embarrassing. That's all. A little embarrassing to realize that I no longer control my life, that the major decisions have already been made, long before I was conscious that any change was occurring."
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"When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor."
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"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
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"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
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"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it."
Life,
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"Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change."
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"Turns out making a dramatic exit is a lot harder when you have to stand there and wait another twenty minutes for a boat to dock."
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"Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level."
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"Evil comes often to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it. I say this, who am Mathurin Kerbouchard, a homeless wanderer upon the earth's far roads. I speak as one who has known hunger and feast, poverty and riches, the glory of the sword and the humility of the defenseless. Hunger inspires no talent, and carried too far, it deadens the faculties and destroys initiative..."
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"I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep. Just ever so quietly I reached over and laid my hand on his shoulder.He said, 'I love you too, Hannah."He didn't last long after that. Death had become his friend. They say that people, if they want to, can let themselves slip away when the time comes. I think that is what Nathan did. He was not false or greedy. When the time came to go, he went."
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"Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground."
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