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Life Quotes


"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."


"The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father."


"I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them."



"I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen."


"The quality of life is more important than life itself."


"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."



"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."


"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment."


"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not."


"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol."


"Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path."


"Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together."



"Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning."



"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."



"Things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody."



"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."


"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."


"Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself."



"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."



"I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences."


"It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe."


"There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies."



"But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears', for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house". The moral of 'Snow White' is "Never eat apples". The moral of World War One is "Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."



"Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life."


"My act has always reflected what's going on in my life."


"The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you."


"God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world."


"Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we're all dying " nay, we're all dead " and it is up to us to be our own self-necromancers to find some form of life and spirit to reanimate the corpse of a life spent wanting."


"I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs."
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