Dear Life Quotes

• The thing is to be happy, no matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.

  Alice Munro

  Believe, Tragedy, Trying

  "Dear Life". Book by Alice Munro, 2012.

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• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Character, Men

  William Shakespeare (1855). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.409

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• I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life.

  Marc Morrone

  Life Is, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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• Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sarcastic, Memorable, Hanging On

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• Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

  Derek Landy

  Love Is, Holding On, Finding Someone

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• My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Giving Up, Keys, Race

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Figure out WHY you're doing what you're doing and remind yourself of it constantly. Every day, every hour. Hold onto that for dear life. But don't expect anyone else to necessarily believe you, or know what is in your heart.

  Jane Park

  Believe, Heart, Hours

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

  Louisa May Alcott

  Tough, Sometimes, Life Is

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.643, ShandonPress

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• Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don't intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.

  Logan Lerman

  Hanging On, Life Is, Rollercoaster

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• Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

  Meg Rosoff

  Fall, Emotional, Blood

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• Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Lying, Light, Two

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.204, St. Martin's Press

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• You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

  Henry Miller

  Sublime, Ends, Alleys

  "Black Spring".

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• A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

  Beth Moore

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

  Meg Rosoff

  Happens, Happenings, Things Happen

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• We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

  Theodor Reik

  Race, Dear God, Dear

  Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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• When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.

  Max Stirner

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Doe

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.283, Cambridge University Press

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• I’ll never forget the first time I ran with a group of Kenyan women in 2004... The first mile was way slower than my typical run to the point where I was looking around thinking, “Are they for real? These are the fastest women in the world?” But by mile 5 we were buzzing along, mile six I was hitting the gas, and mile seven I was hanging on for dear life.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Running, Real, Thinking

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• I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.

  Fred Melamed

  Eight, Islands, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Night, Men

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I ride horses once in a while, but Im no expert. I hold on for dear life.

  Emily Robison

  Horse, Experts, Dear

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• In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Clouds, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

  Henry James

  Reality, Dear

  Henry James, Mrs. W. K. Clifford, Marysa Demoor, Monty Chisholm (1999). “Bravest of women and finest of friends: Henry James's letters to Lucy Clifford”, Univ of Victoria Dept of English

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• There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his fall halfway down the side of the cliff, holding on for dear life. There was a clump of strawberries beside him, and certain death above him and below. What should he do? went the question. And the reply was, Eat the strawberries. The story had never made sense to him as a boy. It did now.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fall, Boys, Men

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• You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.

  Adam Young

  Heart, Mountain, Realizing

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