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life stories life-is
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted... Carol Shields
life beautiful struggle
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
life strong truthful
What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life. Carlos Castaneda
life people important
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years.
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
life responsibility desert
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
life player games
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. C. S. Lewis
life faith creativity
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille
acceptance self two
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value. Charles Caleb Colton
acceptance past age
In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. Djuna Barnes
acceptance stuff good-work
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. Diane Wakoski
acceptance all-the-best our-lives
We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives. Dianna Agron
acceptance ideas knowing
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need. Carl Sagan
acceptance attachment goal
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth. Byron Katie
acceptance personality interest
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. Cesare Pavese
acceptance hands mr-collins
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable. Jane Austen
acceptance air together
[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside. Janet Leigh
affliction bears guilty-conscience
I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. Charles Spurgeon
affliction comforter
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.
affliction aware good hate immigrant led nostalgia particular politics
Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres. Neel Mukherjee
affliction hath man rod seen
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
affliction ages bright hath method
Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
affliction trouble reason
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them. Billy Graham
affliction bears cry
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. William Shakespeare
affliction return seek till
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
affliction bowels days rested
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.