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Life Quotes


"I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life."


"A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow."


"I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done."


"Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge."


"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."


"I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be."


"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."


"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."


"A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises."


"My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences."


"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness."


"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."


"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."



"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning."


"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."


"One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life."


"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
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"The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion."


"There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life."


"Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone."


"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."


"Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back."


"To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."



"There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life."


"We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon."


"I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky."


"I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity."


"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."


"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house."


"I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life."
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