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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love variety in my life.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent my life working to protect our country. I served three tours in Iraq with the CIA, served in national security positions under Presidents of both parties, and at the Pentagon.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been watching any TV recently because I've been on the road, but I am an avid 'EastEnders' fan. I've watched it all my life, and so have my family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being a kid and wanting to be so many different things. There was even one point that I wanted to be a clarinet player, and I had never even touched a clarinet, in my life. And then, I wanted to be a chef. And then, I wanted to be a vet. It's hard to decide who you're gonna be, as weird as that sounds, because we all do it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-sufficiency is vitally important to my self-respect. I never wanted to rely on my parents in that way, because I knew that if I got used to it, I'd be reliant all my life.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Epictetus, I realized that most of the pain in my life came not from any actual privations or insults but, rather, from the shame of thinking that they could have been avoided.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020