Whole Life Quotes

• Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

  Roger Caras

  Life, Dog, Sorry

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• There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

  Robert Brault

  People, Realizing, Default

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• Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Honorable Man, Treachery

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• All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance." Osho

  Rajneesh

  Ignorance, Simple, Two

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• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

  Morris West

  Happiness, Summer, Christian

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running a record label, just means my whole life revolves completely around metal music and I can't do that anymore.

  Blake Judd

  Running, Mean, Labels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

  Beck

  Real, People, Records

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

  Blake Judd

  Heart, Years, Soul

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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• I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.

  Jack Tatum

  Writing, Thinking, Hobbies

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Doe, Get Real, Exhausting

  "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.

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• I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.

  Daniel Powter

  People, Whole, Involved

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Baseball, Athlete, Singing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "Chris Isaak Pays Tribute To Sun Studio's Golden Years". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 27, 2011.

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• I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.

  Walter White

  Morning, Sleep, Years

  "Breaking Bad". TV Series, Episode: "Better Call Saul", www.imdb.com. 2008-2013.

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• I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Years, People, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm in a relationship, and I've been in one in a while, but all the people I've been with at various points - and I've had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life - were all the right people at the right time.

  Bonnie Raitt

  People, Right Time, Monogamous Relationship

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

  Snoop Dogg

  Dream, Growing Up, Ghetto

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October, 1995.

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• It's also hard to believe, because people alive today, immigration's been a daily event and a daily topic for their whole lives. They can't conceive of a period of time where there was no immigration.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, People, Live For Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier.

  Dalai Lama

  Ideas, People, Life Is

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• Say the prayer first thing in the morning when you open your eyes; then say it again before you go to sleep. Dream the prayer. Feel the prayer with your emotional body. Be the prayer; align your faith and intent with the prayer until your whole life is based on this prayer.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Morning, Prayer

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• My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.

  Luis Gerardo Mendez

  Running, Nice, Goal

  "Origin Series: Club de Cuervos Actor Luis Gerardo Méndez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a journey you take your whole life, that coming back in, re-landing in your body, in your self, on the Earth. I think one of the reasons it's been so easy, in a way, for us to violate both women and the Earth is this profound dissociation that exists in everyone.

  Eve Ensler

  Journey, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

  Eve Ensler

  Struggle, Way, Body

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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• When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

  Amanda Beard

  Stress, Kids, Son

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.

  Jeff Corwin

  Children, Men, Opportunity

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