This Life Quotes - Page 16

• Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Night, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.214, Virginia Woolf

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• I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.

  Elin Nordegren

  Real, Lying, Struggle

  "Elin: I Never Hit Tiger Woods With A Golf Club" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. August 25, 2010.

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• As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's a misinterpretation of life to live it only in preparation for the next one. To subordinate the one you've got to an indefinite next round is foolish. It's a waste of this life not to live this life. What's next is anybody's guess.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fun, Preparation, Trying

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• In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who chose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ Jesus.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Growing Up, Real

  Ellen G. White (2000). “Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life”

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• I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

  Theodora Goss

  Thinking, Magic, Purpose

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• Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.

  Richie Sambora

  Taken, Risk, Way

  Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.

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• Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.

  Fernando Sabino

  Ninety Nine, Path, Nostalgia

  Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press

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• The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers

  Roberto Arlt

  Crazy, Thinking, Play

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• Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Forever, Care

  "Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers".

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• Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

  Jennifer Echols

  Life, Purpose, Chance

  Jennifer Echols (2009). “Going Too Far”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I have loved this life.  I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth.  And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Play, Laughing

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• This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

  Laura Moriarty

  Good Luck, Life Is, Mines

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• This life isn't bad for a first draft.

  Joan Konner

  Firsts

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• Men are terrified of a woman's depth of love and the energy that moves as a woman's sexuality and emotions. And, at the same time, men want nothing more in this life than to merge completely with a woman's devotional love and wild energy. Only as a man outgrows his fear can he handle a woman's tremendous love-energy without running. And only such a man is worthy of your devotional offering in a committed intimacy.

  David Deida

  Running, Moving, Men

  David Deida (2009). “Dear Lover: A Woman's Guide to Men, Sex, and Love's Deepest Bliss: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.

  Omar Suleiman

  Giving, Bitterness, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Oct 18, 2012

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• Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

  Jon Foreman

  Our World, Order, True Life

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• I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

  Jon Foreman

  Art, Fighting, Thinking

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• My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through the song. But at the same time, I'm not a religious salesman. I feel like God doesn't really need a salesman, and what these songs are are simply my interactions with this life and learning. I guess the bottom line is the songs are really honest, you know what I mean. That faith is going to come through. If the listener is looking for it, that's definitely a part of it.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Religious, Mean

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• I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have in this life. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be.

  Jon Foreman

  Wise, Regret, Past

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• We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Change, Ends

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.301

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• Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

  Thomas Merton

  Eternity, Contemplation

  Thomas Merton (1997). “Dancing In The Water Of Life Volume 5:1963-1965: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage”, HarperOne

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• Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings of an eternal marriage. By making and keeping sacred temple covenants, we evidence our love for God, for our companion, and our real regard for our posterity-even those yet unborn. Our family is the focus of our greatest work and joy in this life; so will it be throughout all eternity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Husband, Real, Sacrifice

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• Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

  Brett Dennen

  Blessed, Alive, Celebrate

  "Song: 'Blessed'". 2003.

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• As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Moving, Return

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• This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

  Ray Comfort

  Life, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 23, 2013

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