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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
– Boris Pasternak
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
– Boris Pasternak
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
– Louis Pasteur
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
– Alan Paton
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Live your life and forget your age.
– Jean Paul
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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
– Pope John Paul II
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When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.
– Pope John Paul II
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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
– Pope John Paul II
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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
– Pope Paul VI
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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
– Pope Paul VI
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The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
– Pope Paul VI
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
– Pope Paul VI
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We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.
– Pope Paul VI
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You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
– Pope Paul VI
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
– Cesare Pavese
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
– Cesare Pavese
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
– Cesare Pavese
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
– Cesare Pavese
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.
– Guy Pearce
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I have real dilemmas at times in trying to understand what I really think about the things that are in films and how people respond to them. I flip back and forth from going, It's a slice of life. This happens in life. A film is an artistic venture. It's expressing life, so why not?
– Guy Pearce
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Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living.
– John Pearson
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They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
– John Pearson
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Those which live in impiety, and depart in their iniquity, they which have here provoked the wrath of God, and goe hence with that wrath abiding on them, as they could create nothing to their relations but sorrow in their life, so must they necessarily increase it at their death.
– John Pearson
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Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
– John Pearson
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We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
– John Pearson
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What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us?
– John Pearson
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
– M. Scott Peck
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
– M. Scott Peck
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Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
– Gregory Peck
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
– Charles Peguy
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
– William Penn
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One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
– Jack Penn
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Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
– Walker Percy
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
– Walker Percy
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You can get all A's and still flunk life.
– Walker Percy
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But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
– Sonny Perdue
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One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.
– Sonny Perdue
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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
– Evita Peron
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I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.
– Matthew Perry
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There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.
– Matthew Perry
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Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
– Matthew Perry
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The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.
– Rick Perry
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I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that when I get myself organized, and am in one place long enough, I will have so much energy of mind and belief that I will be able to accomplish infinitely more. My thoughts will be larger and clearer, and with a renewal of life.
– Anne Perry
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I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
– Anne Perry
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
– Fernando Pessoa
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I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
– William Petersen
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Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
– William Petersen
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Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
– Roger Tory Peterson
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For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
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I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
– William Lyon Phelps
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
– William Lyon Phelps
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
– William Lyon Phelps
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I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
– Michael Phelps
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You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
– Emo Philips
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
– Wendell Phillips
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
– Pablo Picasso
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
– Pablo Picasso
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
– Pablo Picasso
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The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.
– Albert Pike
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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
– Peace Pilgrim
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
– Luigi Pirandello
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To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
– Robert M. Pirsig
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I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
– Brad Pitt
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I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
– Robert Plant
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
– Sylvia Plath
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
– Plato
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
– Plato
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
– Plato
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
– Plato
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
– Plato
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
– Plutarch
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
– Roman Polanski
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
– Alexander Pope
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
– Alexander Pope
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Passions are the gales of life.
– Alexander Pope
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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
– Katherine Anne Porter
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
– Katherine Anne Porter
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
– Katherine Anne Porter
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The Natural world, in fact, enters us and becomes ,well, becomes really a kind of life, it has a pilgrimage through us.
– Peter Porter
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I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
– Natalie Portman
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I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
– Natalie Portman
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
– Natalie Portman
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Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all.
– Natalie Portman
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life?. We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
– Natalie Portman
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
– Natalie Portman
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
– Colin Powell
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
– Colin Powell
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I haven't even begun. I'm in the infancy of having the privilege of living this life. I'm still in utero. Oh God! Just wait until I'm born!
– Susan Powter
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An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.
– Terry Pratchett
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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
– Terry Pratchett
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How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'Your too small Pre', 'Your not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I have to win.
– Steve Prefontaine
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