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My Life Quotes (page 71)

I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with a truth that needs no flowers to show it’s dead, that there’s nothing I’ve wanted - and nothing in which I’ve placed, even for a moment, the dream of only that moment - that hasn’t disintegrated below my windows like a clod of dirt that resembled stone until it fell from a flowerpot on a high balcony. It would even seem that Fate has always tried to make me love or want... Fernando Pessoa
It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences. Barbara Kingsolver
One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock... Johnny Depp
I should live my life on bended knee. If I can't control my destiny. You've gotta have a scheme. You've gotta have a plan. In the world of today, for tomorrow's man. No control David Bowie
Emily Bronte quote: "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul"
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul Emily Bronte
He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband," thought the Professor's widow. "On my life and honor, I will make him pay for it. Wilkie Collins
It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive. Stephenie Meyer
Rumi quote: "if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my..."
if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow Rumi
I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the book, out of the booth, and coasting on the green crest of the song, to the momentary idea that any point on Earth was mine for the visiting, that I'd lucked out living in the reality I was in. And I also got the feeling I was souring and damaging that luck by enjoying the contentment of pulling the shades on the sun, and shutting out my fellow employees and the world, and folding myself up in the... Patton Oswalt
Elaine Dundy quote: "Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew..."
Fate was playing my hand for me and for once in my life I knew better than not to go ahead and let it. Elaine Dundy
Jim Elliot quote: "Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station,..."
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God. Jim Elliot
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the..."
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me. Kurt Vonnegut
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown. Hugh Prather
I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by. Neal Stephenson
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects. Anais Nin

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