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Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
– Anne Hathaway
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
– Henry Rollins
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Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
– Susan Orlean
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Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.
– Nick Carter
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Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
– Matt Cameron
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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
– Red Skelton
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
– Carlos Fuentes
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
– Antonio Tabucchi
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Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.
– Anna Paquin
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
– Candace Bushnell
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
– Alexis Carrel
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
– Russell Baker
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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
– Anita Brookner
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Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
– Johnny Depp
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
– Garrett Hedlund
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Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.
– Joel Osteen
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Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
– Emily Carr
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
– Stephen Hawking
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
– Quentin Crisp
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Life should be great rather than long.
– B. R. Ambedkar
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Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.
– Laurel Clark
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Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
– Esther Williams
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
– Eddie Vedder
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Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
– Gustave Flaubert
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
– Walter Russell Mead
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
– William Goldman
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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
– Daniel Libeskind
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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
– Jean Anouilh
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
– Sydney Smith
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.
– Michael J. Fox
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Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
– Andrew Shue
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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
– William Hazlitt
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
– Rainn Wilson
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
– K. D. Lang
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Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
– Maude Adams
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Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
– Jean Claude Van Damme
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
– Fran Drescher
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Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
– Ben Harper
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
– Franz Liszt
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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
– Bill Hicks
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
– Imelda Marcos
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
– Charles M. Schulz
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
– Carl Sandburg
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Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
– Desmond Morris
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Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.
– Bethenny Frankel
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Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.
– Kareena Kapoor
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Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.
– Elisha Cuthbert
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Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.
– Jeanne Moreau
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Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
– Carre Otis
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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
– Ashley Smith
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Life is best when you are in love.
– Michael Moriarty
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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
– Robert H. Schuller
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Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
– Chris Robinson
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Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
– Hypatia
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Life is about learning when you stop learning, you die.
– Tom Clancy
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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
– Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Life is about family and technology.
– Mark Goddard
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
– Kate Atkinson
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
– Ted Turner
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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
– Vladimir Nabokov
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
– Henry James
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
– Anais Nin
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Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
– Thomas Sowell
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
– George Sand
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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
– Dirk Benedict
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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
– Albert J. Nock
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Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.
– Susan Lucci
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
– Horace
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
– Barbara Bush
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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
– Deepak Chopra
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Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
– Annie Lennox
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Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.
– Liv Tyler
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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.
– Mike Mills
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
– Anton Chekhov
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
– Charlie Chaplin
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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
– Luis Barragan
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
– Gael Garcia Bernal
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
– Samuel Johnson
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Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.
– Jennifer Aniston
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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
– Gloria Swanson
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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
– Hu Shih
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Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
– Bodhidharma
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
– Jorge Luis Borges
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
– Samuel Johnson
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Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
– Alveda King
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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