Old Life Quotes

• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

  George Herbert

  Life, Bad Ass, Reality

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  Rumi

  Running, Believe, Moving

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• People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Pain, People, Tragedy

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2006). “Genevieve”, p.191, Penguin

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• Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

  Socrates

  Running, Truth, Ignorance

  Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.

  Mary Oliver

  Airplane, Rowdy, World

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Guy, Care, Safe

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.296, Hachette UK

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• There are some people in your life who bring back old memories. And there are others - your first kiss, your first love, your first sex - who, the moment you see them, bring a spark...and something far more potent. They bring back your old life and with that, potential. And possibilities. And the feeling that if you were back in that time, life could be so very different from where you're stuck right now. That's the most tantalizing thing....I want my potential back.

  Brad Meltzer

  Sex, Memories, Love You

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  New Relationship, Trapped

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• My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

  L.P. Hartley

  Dream, Reality, Discarded

  L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.93, Penguin UK

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• People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.

  Zach Braff

  People, Wish, Earth

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• My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

  Og Mandino

  Personality, Complaining, Want

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We’d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Lying, Waiting, Imagine

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