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Life Is A... Quotes
Life reduced to a single, memorable image.
Life gets compared to a school, a story, a history of feeling, and an uneven line between duty and desire in these short, aphoristic lines. Each one reduces something large to a single image. See Journey quotes for more on life as movement.
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- Foreign
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of life is a foreign country.
- Happy Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
- Different Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to sound corny, but if life is a sport, if you're moving to dive on a fumble or pick up a basketball in transition or pivoting to grab your toddler so he doesn't fall into a pool... those are real life movements.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will always be another email to get through; something to clean up, file, and organize; more errands to do. Which is why balance is so important. Life is a marathon, not a sprint.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020