Life Is Like Quotes - Page 8

• That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.

  Harvey Keitel

  Stars, Real, Hollywood

  "Moment Of Truth In 'Youth' Hits Home For Actor Harvey Keitel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 5, 2015.

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• Peace is not something that happens by accident. Peace is like silence; it is always there. The lack of harmony in our lives is like noise superimposed on the silence. THe issue is not how to create peace, but how to live in a way that eliminates the noise.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Issues, Silence, Noise

  FaceBook post by Gabriel Cousens, MD from Oct 09, 2015

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• What my home life is like now is great.

  Missy Elliot

  Home, Life Is, Home Life

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• Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Thinking, Trying, Way

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• Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Happiness, Beautiful, Summer

  Hans Christian Andersen (2013). “The True Story of My Life”, p.143, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

  Diet Eman

  Christian, Giving, Passing Away

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• In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Country, People, Nuisance

  Source: progressive.org

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• My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

  Anthony de Mello

  Glasses, Broken, Evil

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• Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, School, Graduates

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.384, Ballantine Books

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• Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.

  Pema Chodron

  Thinking, Circles, Awakening

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• The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Morning, Stars

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• Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Leadership, Dog, Race

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• Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

  Jose Saramago

  Space, Deserving, Consequence

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Listening, Sake

  Alan Watts (1983). “The Way of Liberation: Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self”, Weatherhill, Incorporated

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• This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

  Anton Chekhov

  Flower, Blooming, Goats

  Anton Chekhov (2006). “The Major Plays”, p.28, Penguin

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• I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

  Scarlett Thomas

  Reality, Stories, World

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• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

  Karl von Frisch

  Water, Magic, Bees

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• To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.

  Joko Beck

  World, Judgment, Enjoy

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• Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

  Amin Maalouf

  Men, Fire, Flames

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Running, Men

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• Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ?
  Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down...
  And everytime you think you gotten past it
  It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground

  Eminem

  Past, Thinking, Down And

  Song: If I Had

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• [At age 76:] A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Good Life, Play, Age

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• Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

  Donald Knuth

  Everyday, Programming, Ifs

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• Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

  Tre Cool

  Together, Ingredients, Causes

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