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"6076 Life Quotes

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Kind Meet Battle Fighting
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Dirt Nourish Grow Stunt
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Hero Among Wise Found
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Forgive Child Afraid Dark
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Those Able See Beyond
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Beauty Style Grace Depend
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I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.

Insight Capacity Good Evil
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The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.

Purpose Life Bear Burden
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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

Pay Price Choose Poison
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If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences. For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves.

Understand Someone Look Action
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If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self.

Feel Kill Self Think
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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.

Little Order Insist World
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Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.

View Matter Wrong Right
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Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

Power Vision Direction Force
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You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.

Protect Frighten Hurt Identify
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Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.

True Always Come Power
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You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse.

Determine Life Move Instead
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If you have a comprehensive explanation for everything then it decreases uncertainty and anxiety and reduces your cognitive load. And if you can use that simplifying algorithm to put yourself on the side of moral virtue then you’re constantly a good person with a minimum of effort.

Effort Person Moral Virtue
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

Life Breath Moment Away
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

World Cause Solve Problem
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I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Life Learn Through Throw
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Someone Show Time First
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Agony Story Inside Greater
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Hard Play Life Love
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The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Children Read Simple Gratitude
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

World Love Young Grab
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Write Hear Idea Brain
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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We are only as blind as we want to be.
Only Want Blind Are
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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Flesh Blood Hunger Set
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I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Life Give Second Chance
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We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.

Love Alive Life Each
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Fine Line Life Greedy
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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Total Everything Heard Seen
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

People Grow Agem Space Parking
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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Open Eye Beauty Around
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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

Hero Person Intent Better
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I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Believe Art Full Life
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?

Long Enough Over War
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Encourage Courtesy Accept Nothing
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Pure Life Realize Art
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Spend Hour Adoring Wise
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Soul Liberate Benefit Among
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It takes a very long time to become young.

Long Young Time Become
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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Wild Horse Paint Wildness
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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Gift Purpose Life Give
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People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Age People Everyone Disease
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Quality Disposal Sand Start
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All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard, and look twice as good as the bitch standing next to you.

Life Party Bitch Friend
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