Quotes about life
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life.
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
In almost every profession — whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business — people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
