Things In Life Quotes - Page 21

• You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

  Sara McMann

  Doors, Order, Mma

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• My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.

  Rashad Evans

  Mother, Hero, Adversity

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• It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

  Goldie

  Laughter, Children, Color

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• There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Teacher, Mean, Successful

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• I like underdogs, I like anti-heroes - people that have a hard time overcoming things in life.

  Matthias Schoenaerts

  Hero, Hard Times, People

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• Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Practice, Differences

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• La chose la plus importante a'   toute la vie est le choix du me  tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

  Blaise Pascal

  Important, Chance, Life Is

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• The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Loyalty, Cities, Space

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• You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.

  Diego Della Valle

  Important, Trying, Toys

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2011.

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• I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Survival, Stronger, Instinct

  "'You'll think I'm a Madman', part 2". Interview With John Colapinto, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2007.

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• The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

  Evan Esar

  Cooking, Looks, Life Is

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• The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Love, Kind, Life Is

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• I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Dream, Simple

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Love You, Mystery, Life Is

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Encore Valentine”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• If man were never to fade away ... but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us. The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Moving, Men, Forever

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• Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Doors, Too Late

  Song: Highlands

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• In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

  Andy Warhol

  Clever, Thinking, Circles

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

  Democritus

  Men, Intelligent, Order

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 155), 1948.

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• Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Pride, Pieces, Virtue

  Ford Madox Ford (2003). “The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion”, p.178, Broadview Press

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• The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Best Things In Life, Best Things

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 114, 1992.

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• You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Hero, People

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• And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.

  Jim Cramer

  Eye, Done, Economy

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• As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Dream, Thinking, Looks

  "Inception - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

  Kevin Costner

  Want, Cool Things

  "Kevin Costner Talks DRAFT DAY, His Career, What We Can Learn from the Movies, How GIANT Influenced His Outlook on Life, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 7, 2014.

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• Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Important, Trying, Different

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