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.
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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.
