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.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
I don't go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people's approval.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.
I am closest to my mother, as she is my rock, my pillar of strength, and my world. Not only has she stood by me through all times - happy, sad, and otherwise - but there have even been moments when I had completely lost hope, and her immense belief in me had lifted me up.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
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.
