- Me
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- 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
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often asked how I can work with a subject as morbid as trauma without becoming burned out or depressed. My answer to this question is that witnessing the transformation that takes place in people when they master their traumas has proven to be a deeply sustaining and uplifting experience in my life.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha's insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha's basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost.
- Colour
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.
- Conferred
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- Nov 07, 2020
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020