Approaching Life Quotes

• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Running, Fake People

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  Karl Jaspers

  Birthday, Philosophy, Made

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• If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

  Edward Albee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use my camera anymore as a camera. I don't feel it as a camera. I feel it as a friend, as something that doesn't make an impression on people, that doesn't make them feel uncomfortable, and that is completely forgotten in my way of approaching life and people and film.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Blessing, People, Cameras

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.

  Erin Gray

  Moving, Understanding, Challenges

  "Erin Gray, then and now: an interview" by Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.

  Jon Foreman

  Mean, Opposites, Feet

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• I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Who I Am, Ideas

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• My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Glowing, Joy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.441, First Avenue Editions

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• Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Adventure, Discovery

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

  Eileen Caddy

  Why Not, Spirit, Habit

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• Reverence is a perception of the soul. Reverence is a natural aspect of authentic empowerment because the soul reveres all of Life. When the personality is aligned with the soul, it cannot perceive life except with reverence. Approaching life with reverence is a step toward moving the personality into alignment with the soul because it brings an aspect of the soul directly into the physical environment.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Personality, Soul

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