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• Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

  Arthur Golden

  Sometimes, Odd, Casual

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• Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey—delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Party, Winning, Love Is

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• Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

  Agatha Christie

  Order, Doe, Emotion

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Sad cypress”

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• Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Flames, Fire

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Laughter, Laughing So Hard

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.77, Harper Collins

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• Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.

  Fábio Moon

  Life, Book, Son

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• As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

  James Salter

  Moving, Games, Looks

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

  Matthew Quick

  Life Is, Havens, Series

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

  Pema Chodron

  Disappointment, Adventure, Knowing

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• Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

  Ray Bradbury

  Underwear, Should, Changed

  "A Graveyard for Lunatics". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

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• Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dance, Movement, Awareness

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Mar 22, 2011

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• Our whole life is like a play.

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Play, Whole

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.875

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• My life is like a stroll upon the beach.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beach, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

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• Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.

  Phillips Brooks

  Thinking, Vacation, Sea

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Seeking life, and other sermons”

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• It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

  Pope Francis

  Soccer, Fall, Land

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• Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Boxing, Life Is

  "On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

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• Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

  Romano Guardini

  Running, Religious, Oil

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• Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game.

  Jay Electronica

  Kissing, Games, Cake

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• I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.

  Tracy McGrady

  Jobs, Nba, People

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• A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

  Nichiren

  Night, Reality, Mirrors

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

  Anacreon

  Life, Wheels, Chariots

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• Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

  Jann Arden

  Stones, Life Is, Diamond

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• Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Order, Years, Ideas

  George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press

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• Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Running, Spiritual, Moving

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