Live Life Quotes - Page 21

• One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Looks, Charm

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• I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, People, Interesting

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• Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, Bigs, Otherness

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• A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Failure

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

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• And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.

  John Frusciante

  Life, Horny, Trying

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

  John Galsworthy

  Men, Wish, Different

  Letter to Thomas Hardy, March 27, 1910.

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Ass

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• Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Men, Years

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• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Being Strong, Confidence, Courage

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Life, Doors

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Apology, People

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

  Hugh Hefner

  Heart, Magazines, Half

  "28 Questions With Hugh Hefner". Interview with Ricardo Poupada, www.askmen.com.

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• A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Society, Trouble Maker

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.23, Penguin

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• I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

  Jill Hennessy

  Adventure, Journey, Men

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• Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Life is half spent before we know what it is.

  George Herbert

  Life, Bad Ass, Reality

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.177

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• I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Enough, Sudden Death, Drivers

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• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  Karen Horney

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

  Robert E. Howard

  Men, Civilization, Skulls

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands”, p.31, Del Rey

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• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Wisdom, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.984, Wordsworth Editions

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• The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

  Lee Iacocca

  Change, Business, Successful

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• There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

  Charles Ives

  Art, Thinking, Life And Living

  Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.

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• I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

  Jessie J

  Life, People, Culture

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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