Another Life Quotes - Page 4

• I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

  Jay-Z

  Exercise, Thinking, Way

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• He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Running, Two, People

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2943, Delphi Classics

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• Endymion, you are my first love, my only love... even if we're reborn, in another life, we'll find each other... and then... We'll fall in love again... - Princess Serenity

  Naoko Takeuchi

  Falling In Love, Princess, First Love

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• We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Soul, Solitude, Trying

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons

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• Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Remembrance

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• Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

  Janusz Korczak

  Believe, Men, Dust

  Janusz Korczak (2003). “Ghetto Diary”, p.22, Yale University Press

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• the novel is inherently a political instrument, regardless of its subject. It invites you - more than invites you, induces you - to live inside another person's skin. It creates empathy. And that's the antidote to bigotry. The novel doesn't just tell you about another life, which is what a newspaper would do. It makes you live another life, inhabit another perspective. And that's very important.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Perspective, Empathy, Political

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• Death is another life.

  Philip James Bailey

  Death, Life Death

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.445

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• For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible.

  Ishmael Beah

  Children, War, Views

  "Memoirs of a Boy Soldier author takes on UN role". www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2007.

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• The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

  Katy Perry

  Past, Dust, Wish

  "The One That Got Away (Music Video Trailer)". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. November 4, 2011.

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• My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.

  Marc Anthony

  Romance, Way, Fans

  "Marc Anthony on life, music and being married to Jennifer Lopez". Interview with Gisela Orozco, articles.chicagotribune.com. October 01, 2010.

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• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

  Fede Alvarez

  Art, Guy, Designer

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

  Frances Mayes

  Ideas, People, House

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• Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Average, Abuse

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• The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Dream, Moving, Artist

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• I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Karma, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.131, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Alas, day, you brought light,
  You trailed splendour
  You showed us god:
  I salute you, most precious one,
  But I go to a new place,
  Another life.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Death, Light, Splendour

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Future, Promise, Would Be

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• I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.

  Shirley Temple

  Blessed, Thinking, Interesting

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• All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?

  Brian Aldiss

  Animal, Wish, Habitat

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Travel, Home

  "The Essential Hazlitt".

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• There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

  Tori Amos

  Gun, Energy, Hunters

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• If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

  Marquis de Sade

  Earth, May, Rewards

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• Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way

  W. S. Merwin

  Thinking, Growing, Way

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• The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Wish, Want

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