- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
- Harshness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation. By that, I mean a Nigeria conscious of itself as a nation.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Downturns in migration almost always prove temporary, as people adjust to changes in American enforcement. What doesn't change is the basic human impulse to pursue a better life in a place where they believe it's still possible.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama started in public life not as an elected official but as a community organizer. He worked with churches and other groups on the south side of Chicago to push public leaders to fight poverty, improve the local school system and make housing more affordable, and to bring about the change the community needed and deserved.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The TPP will be good for the American economy, the Vietnamese economy, and the labor and environmental standards that make life better for our people.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
For more than fifty years, our policy towards Cuba was not making life better for Cubans. In many ways, it was making it worse.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to live my life like my father lives his. He always takes care of everyone else first. He won't even start eating until he's sure everyone else in the family has started eating. Another thing: My dad never judges me by whether I win or lose.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020