Quotes about life
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
One has to do something new in order to see something new.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
Time is long but life is short.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.
Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day — as long as you treat it that way.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it.
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