- 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
As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing an energy in my life that left me feeling underserved and unfulfilled. I decided to grow. I decided to purge myself of anyone and anything that was not full of goodness, serving me or making me happy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’m much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn’t develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one level, it's about how we create a coherent sense of self.
- Nov 07, 2020
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, we all learn from everyone.
- Love Life
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- Nov 07, 2020