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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.
- Style
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them, that they are a woman's affair, then you can hardly complain that he doesn't have any style sense. You all make this bed.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.
- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.
- American Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
- Discipline
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never boxed before in my life. I've had one day's training at a boxing gym, and it's an incredibly difficult sport.
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- Nov 07, 2020