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Life Quotes (page 564)

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. Elizabeth Gilbert
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "It is a great thing to start life with a small number of..."
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Seuss quote: "Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of..."
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Dr. Seuss
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Charles Dickens
Ellen DeGeneres quote: "That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So..."
That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it. Ellen DeGeneres
One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white society, but in advocating violence it was imitating the worst, the most brutal, and the most uncivilized value of American life. American Negroes had not been mass murderers. They had not murdered children in Sunday school, nor had they hung white men on trees bearing strange fruit. They had not been hooded perpetrators of violence, lynching human beings at will... Martin Luther King jr.
Saul Bellow quote: "You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially..."
You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few. Saul Bellow
As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense. Paulo Coelho
They were an elite, living at the center of the world's greatest power, and one of their most cherished privileges was the cultivation of the life of the mind. Stephen Greenblatt
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable. John Stuart Mill
Mario Puzo quote: "I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and..."
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. Mario Puzo
Maxine Hong Kingston quote: "Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present."
Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present. Maxine Hong Kingston
Graham Greene quote: "I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something..."
I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about. Graham Greene
If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life. Zig Ziglar
This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table. Patricia Highsmith

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