- Money
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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
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.
- Frozen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend to shape our perceptions of how war should and should not be conducted? Can it shape our perceptions of who should be conducting war and in what manner? And the answer to that is a clear yes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother gave up everything for me. In Yekaterinburg, she had a job and an apartment in the centre of the city and her whole life. And in Moscow - nothing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for my writing process, there is one truth I have discovered after writing some twenty-plus books: Not every book is the same, but the middle of every book is where I really begin to question my choice of vocations. The beginning and end is usually fairly clear to me, but that middle just sucks the life right out of me.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written poetry most of my life.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020