3,134 Quotes About Life-and-living
- Author Roland Merullo
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He laughed. I had made a joke, apparently. "What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.
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- Author Ariel Lawhon
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Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.
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- Author Madeleine Thien
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But for anything to be alive, it required motion : the current must run, the record must turn, a person must leave or find another path. Without movement or change, the world became nothing more than a stale copy, and this was the trouble with Ba's elegant calligraphy, his patient life, it was frozen in time.
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- Author Anne Lamott
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What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
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- Author Svetlana Alexievich
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Instead of lullabies, my mother would sing us songs of the Revolution. Now she sings them to her grandchildren. 'Are you nuts?' I ask her. She replies, 'I don't know any other songs.
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- Author Elizabeth Blade
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They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.
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- Author Elizabeth A. Johnson
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God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.
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- Author mists of time
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Numquam illegitimi carborundum --"Never let the bastards grind you down.”-- my old Latin prof Dr. Kuk''s version, other minor variations out there.
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- Author Fakeer Ishavardas
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You be good. That's your business. The rest, leave to God. That's his business.
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