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Life Quotes



"Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine."


"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life."


"He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully."


"The minutiae of our lives! Telephone calls, errands, appointments. None of these is of the slightest significance to others and but fleetingly to us yet they constitute such a portion of our lives, it might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events."


"There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd."


"Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way."


"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."



"If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite someone to join you."



"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."


"Past tears are present strength."


"The last year of her college career was wheeling slowly round. She could see ahead her examination and her departure. She had the ash of disillusion gritting under her teeth. Would the next move turn out the same? Always the shining doorway ahead; and then, upon approach, always the shining doorway was a gate into another ugly yard, dirty and active and dead. Always the crest of the hill gleaming ahead under heaven: and then, from the top of the hill only another sordid valley full of amorphous, squalid activity."


"The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us."


"Life is a very scary reality; you just have to keep moving ahead, doing what you do."


"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."


"There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way."


"Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness."


"We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us."


"You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body."


"But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?"


"I've never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking ALL movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, then, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is THEIR lives are meaningless."


"Life is too short to bullshit."


"Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn."


"I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life."


"But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all."



"Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating."



"It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature."


"A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts."
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