Life Is Quotes - Page 35

• At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

  Susan Jacoby

  Women, Heart, Emotional

  Susan Jacoby (2008). “The Age of American Unreason”, p.269, Vintage

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• Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

  Cat Zingano

  Ufc, Mma, Matter

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• My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

  Donald Cerrone

  Grandma, Ufc, Mma

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• I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.

  Antoni Tapies

  Worry, Anxiety, Feelings

  "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

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• One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

  Joe Rogan

  Struggle, Mma, Lessons

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Awareness, Linear Time

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• When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Body, Waking

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• Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Preparation, Way

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 55), March 6, 1995.

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• If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?

  Edwin Land

  Thinking, Preparation, Answers

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• Life is a choice... it's a choice to be successful.

  Josh Thomson

  Successful, Mma, Choices

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• The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

  John Molina, Jr.

  Giving Up, Keys, Mma

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• ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Cat, Thinking

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing. I power wash everything: my wife, the mailman with the f-cking mail, power wash his ass, f-ck my mail up, I don't care.

  J. B. Smoove

  Wife, House, Gardening

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

  David Hare

  Loss, Thinking, America

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

  David Hare

  Ends, End Of The Road, Feels

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It’s simply good common sense. After all, you’re the only person who’s with you 24/7, until you draw your last breath.

  Lauren Mackler

  Believe, Keys, People

  "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold.

  Nichiren

  Life, Gold, Treasure

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• To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Choices, Pro Life

  Interview with Michael Barbaro, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2010.

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• The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Healing, Oneness

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• Life is about opportunities, creating them and embracing them, and for me, that was the Olympic dream. That's what defined me. That was my bliss.

  Janine Shepherd

  Dream, Opportunity, Creating

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• The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

  Tad R. Callister

  Jesus, Discovery, Events

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• We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Mother, Children, Eye

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty...”, p.13

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• The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.

  Confucius

  Sacrifice, Men, Parent

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• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

  Alfred Brendel

  Art, Order, Giving

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• Your life is a reflection of your past thoughts. That includes all the great things, and all the things you consider not so great... Think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Thinking, Reflection, Past

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