Whole Life Quotes - Page 7

• As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

  Ricky Williams

  Fun, Athlete, World

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 13, 2004.

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• I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

  Serena Williams

  Fighter, Whole

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• I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

  Brian Wilson

  Lucky, Secure, Has Beens

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• Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

  Carnie Wilson

  Pounds, Whole

  "Carnie Wilson: "It's Dawning On Me That My Health Has To Come First"". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. February 22, 2010.

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• My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Design, Computer

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• My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Dad, Fighting

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

  Michael Chabon

  Morning, Home, Destiny

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspiring, Bells, Moments

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.122, Canongate Books

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• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Squares, Roots

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• You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

  Stephen King

  Boys, Snow, Tahiti

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• There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Buddhist, Men

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.75, Bottom of the Hill

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• All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

  Ken Kesey

  Psychology, Looks, Firsts

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.166, Penguin

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• If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Passion, Fate

  "Reading Hegel: The Introductions".

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• We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

  Pema Chodron

  Escaping, Mind, Monsters

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• He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

  Haruki Murakami

  Goodbye, Judging, Trying

  "Hunting Knife" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2003.

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• Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

  Robert Browning

  Giving, Perfect, Soul

  Robert Browning, “Now!”

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• This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.

  Betty Smith

  Sleep, Eight, People

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Heart, Happy Life

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• And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

  Richard Yates

  Years, Funny Things, Fifty

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  Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.

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• You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wall, Real, Facts

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• You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

  Charles Baxter

  Thinking, Anecdotes, Stories

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.48, Vintage

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• with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Long, Lines

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Burton Pike (2008). “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”, p.13, Dalkey Archive Press

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• And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Quality, Errands

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Jurassic Park: A Novel”, p.171, Ballantine Books

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• I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Lying, Skeletons

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