Whole Life Quotes - Page 38

• Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Strive

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.20, Full Moon Publications

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• Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Dust, Flames

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• My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

  Edvard Munch

  Fall, Jumping, Trying

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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• The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  World, Life Is, Obsession

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Age

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• I always felt guilty. My whole life.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Guilt, Felt, Guilty

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

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• The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Memories, Real, Important Events

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• Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it!

  Terry Goodkind

  Want, Arguing, Logic

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• In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiration, Doubt, Enthusiasm

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly, uselessly wasted their whole lives in vain.

  Guru Nanak

  Blessed, Vision, Lord

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• Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

  Glen Hansard

  Gratitude, Team, Grateful

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• I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, Drawing, Parent

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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• To receive a 10-point ride is a blessing in itself, but to have it honored by giving to those who could use a little support to accomplish the things they want to do in life is a bigger blessing. The school is something I believe hugely in. They provide a special place for kids to understand things that many people avoid or never learn to deal with their whole lives.

  Kelly Slater

  Believe, School, Kids

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• I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

  Matthew Caws

  Perception, Brain, Should

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• As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Max Planck

  Science, Intelligent, Men

  "'Das Wesen der Materie' ('The Nature of Matter')". Speech in Florence, Italy,, 1944.

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• Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Order, Catholic

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• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Effort, Flesh

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.331, CUA Press

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• In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to be as sacred as your own word. Make this one change in your life, and your whole life will change.

  Mike Hernacki

  Self Esteem, Lying, Self Confidence

  Hernacki, Mike “The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success”, Pelican Publishing

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• Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Views

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• Being a mom, I love to play with my kids and have fun with them, but I also love fashion. My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Mom, Fashion, Fun

  "Exclusive: Kourtney Kardashian On Keeping Up With Three Kids". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 7, 2015.

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• I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Girl, Believe, School

  "What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?: Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.salon.com. November 5, 2013.

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• My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

  Dave Grohl

  Artist, Careers, People

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

  Clare Balding

  Boring, Fitting, Whole

  "Clare Balding: 'This has been the year of my life'". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Injustice, Collectors

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• Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

  Bob Goff

  Eye, People, Needs

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.181, Thomas Nelson Inc

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