This Life Quotes - Page 14

• In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

  Tom Cruise

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jun 14, 2011

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• It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life -- not getting ready for a red carpet.

  Marion Cotillard

  Fun, Stress, Red

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• I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I’m extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life!

  J. R. Martinez

  Grateful, Believe, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more.

  Elsa Pataky

  Your Side, Sides, Starting

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

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• All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

  David Walliams

  Dream, Life Is, Wasting Your Time

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• Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

  Queen Latifah

  Queens, Hey, Crowns

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• The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable for his choices and actions in spiritual matters, so also is he accountable in temporal matters. It is through our own efforts and decisions that we earn our way in this life. While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet. Ultimately, our own actions determine our blessings or lack of them. It is a direct consequence of both agency and accountability.

  Marion G. Romney

  Spiritual, Moving, Blessing

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• True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Destiny, Choices, Purpose

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• A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time away from her responsibilities and that she deserves a life of greater ease and independence. But with personal revelation, she can prioritize correctly and navigate this life confidently.

  Julie B. Beck

  Responsibility, Independence, Good Woman

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• I have become an orchid
  washed in on the salt white beach.
  Memory,
  what can I make of it now
  that might please you-
  this life, already wasted
  and still strewn with miracles?

  Mary Ruefle

  Beach, Memories, Orchids

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• I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.

  Katrina Kenison

  Children, Blessing, Journey

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• Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Moving, Optimistic, Simple

  "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" by Tom Dyckhoff, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 12, 2007.

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• Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.

  Edward Weston

  Dream, Eye, Thinking

  "Daybooks".

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• Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is establish'd, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Ignorance, Men

  "The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773".

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• Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Accountability, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.388

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• I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Founding Fathers Atheist, Age Of Reason

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, People, House

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

  John Milton

  Life, Nature, Strong

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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• This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Dust, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

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• You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.

  Gia Carangi

  Thinking, Reason, Bigs

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• I think God has a plan for me, but I don't think it's in this life.

  Gia Carangi

  Thinking, God Has A Plan, Plans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

  Richard Baxter

  Perfection, Preparation

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.254

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• Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Thinking, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.276

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• A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Life, Regret, Sky

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Hope, Heart

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