True Life Quotes - Page 6

• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Fire, Self

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• Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spiritual, Joy, Triumph

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• When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.

  Mae Whitman

  Mom, Daughter, Teenager

  "Mae Whitman Interview PARENTHOOD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.

  Richard Grossman

  Writing, House, Novelists

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  True Power, Purpose, Awakening

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.

  Keri Russell

  Scripts, Serious, Watches

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Philosophy, Believe, Stoicism

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, Floating, Bonus

  ""True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre" - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about "Razor Girl"". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 08, 2016.

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• I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

  India.Arie

  Energy, Force, Rhyme

  Source: www.tv.com

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• I wish I hadn't worked so hard; I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me; I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends; and I wish I had let myself be happier. It's an extraordinary list of getting in your own way, isn't it?

  Tom Hiddleston

  Feelings, Wish, Way

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Culture

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Knowing, Stand By Me, Littles

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• Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.

  Michael Cunningham

  Glasses, Virginia, Broken

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Ideas, Enlightenment

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• If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

  James Joyce

  Friday, Looks, Thursday

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.97, GENERAL PRESS

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• He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.

  Ann Patchett

  Opportunity, Tchaikovsky, Records

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• We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Adventure, Horror Stories, Trials

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• There's a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy's true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  True Love, Believe, Heart

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• We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Thinking, Expectations

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• Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Character, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Solitude, Impatience, Conscious

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• Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, Biographies, Events

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.243

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• A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Example, Life Is, Proof

  John Woolman, John Greenleaf Whittier (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.44, Boston : J.R. Osgood

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