Quotes with life

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  • Andy Warhol Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • W. Mitchell Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
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  • Arthur E. Waite Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Rodgers Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bud Grant Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Joyce Brothers Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • William James Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • André Malraux Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Lord George Byron Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Blaise Pascal Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Charles M. Schultz Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Amy Carmichael Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
    Amy Carmichael
    Missionary in India (1867 - 1951)
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  • Aldous Huxley Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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