Life Is Complicated Quotes

• Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

  Dean Koontz

  Mind, Kingdoms, Mystery

  FaceBook post by Dean Koontz from Mar 11, 2016

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

  Adrian Tan

  Long, Trying, Life Is

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strength, Love You, Heart

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• We're all human and life is complicated.

  Mark Kozelek

  Life Is, Complicated, Humans

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Life Is, Complicated, Difficult

  A. Lee Martinez (2007). “A Nameless Witch”, p.239, Macmillan

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• It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

  Guillaume Musso

  Scary, Balance, Life Is

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  Barbara Boxer

  Home, Privacy, Life Is

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• Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

  Sjon

  Literature, Complicated, Life Is

  Source: wwd.com

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• Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.

  Rebecca Stead

  Beautiful, Girl, Boys

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• You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise, outlined neatly. Life is complicated; it consists of grace and sin. He who does not sin is not human. We all make mistakes and we need to recognise our weakness. A religious who recognises himself as weak and a sinner does not negate the witness that he is called to give, rather he reinforces it, and this is good for everyone. What I expect of you therefore is to give witness. I want this special witness from religious.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Real, Mistake

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• And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see these outsiders following in each other's footsteps as the same person, a single soul traversing across several lives. They also see time as something that doesn't proceed inexorably into the future.

  Tom Cole

  Real, Believe, Soul

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• Mike's eyes narrowed shrewdly. "Don't kid yourself, Bella. The guy's head over heels for you." "I know," I sighed. "Life is complicated." "And girls are cruel," Mike said under his breath.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!

  Moby

  Congratulations, Gay, Wake Up

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