- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Life Quotes
First-person, unfiltered reflection.
This page is built from first-person quotes about "my life" — a long personal search for meaning, and the deliberate work of clearing out stress and unwanted obligations. For identity-focused sayings, see I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I flip the turntables. I write a lot from the male perspective, but as a female. That's how I live my life. I can roll with the boys.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, my husband is a pretty good rock, a pretty good sounding board... He definitely brings a center of gravity into my life.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I now make meditation a daily part of my life. Ideally, I would find 20 minutes, twice a day, to sit and meditate with an app I have on my phone. In reality, on most days, I only get the chance to do it once. But it is still incredibly valuable.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not hesitate for a nanosecond to step in front of a bullet, to do anything to give my life for my children.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020