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Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as ...

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Too many Christians are living in a house of fear and not in the house of love.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Real living is living for others.

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

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Bruce LeeBruce Lee: Artist of Life

Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life...

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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, ...

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the produ...

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The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me.

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C. S. LewisThe Silver Chair

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living withi...

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Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and st...

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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

We live and breathe words.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totall...

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Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a pa...

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Charles BukowskiPortions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays

the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasiti...

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...

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My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I reme...

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If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.

The harassed look is that of a desperately tired swimmer or runner; yet there is no question of stop...

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Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the...

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We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a...

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Chuck KlostermanKilling Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in...

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Chuck KlostermanKilling Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own a...

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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I ...

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The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the thing...

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The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch...

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A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it ...

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When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

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Cormac McCarthyAll the Pretty Horses

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she shou...

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Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offerin...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've fou...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are ...

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I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous...

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Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by li...

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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence n...

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I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It i...

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Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in...

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I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places ...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing...

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All death matters.""Only to the living.

It's only life. We all get through it.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw mate...

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...you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into their energy fie...

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Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this...

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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living t...

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What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living...

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We have a saying up here. ‘Life is wasted on the living.

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for...

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Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, tho...

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And all at once the heavy nightFell from my eyes and I could see, --A drenched and dripping apple-tr...

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One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...

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We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhe...

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Elizabeth GilbertBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this fo...

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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through...

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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alon...

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Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing fl...

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Ernest DowsonThe Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of ...

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The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the st...

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Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t real...

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Eugène IonescoRhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're...

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A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the ...

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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wh...

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I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I...

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Fernando PessoaThe Book of Disquiet

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to s...

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Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhausti...

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It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There ...

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