Lord, let me not live to be useless!
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Quotes tagged ‘Life’
The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likewise!
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do―because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well,…
I fall in love with ideas and fantasies rather than whole beings and then I sit here and wonder why I’m still alone. It’s because I don’t fucking pay attention. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow that today falls through the cracks.
We all make mistakes. Mine was falling madly in love and forgetting to pack a parachute.
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and turn headlong down an immutable course.
We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 bi…
I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans — there will always be life — but they're getting sicker every year.
While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me — only I couldn't.
My basic view of things is — not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer... I've a strong impression that our world is about to go under. Our political systems are deeply compromised and have no f…
...we're all cynics and romantics, sometimes simultaneously...
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, age after age, forever.
You make me want to live... Not survive; not exist. Live.
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
I’ve always longed to turn the last page of a romantic novel but it seems my life is destined to remain a book of short stories.