e. e. cummings
Poet, Painter
"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."
Loving Life quotes
Loving Life
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
Allyson Schwartz
Politician
"The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting."
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"I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done."
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"What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory."
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"Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time"
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"Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be."
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"It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. Why did it happen so? She herself never changed; when she loved anyone, it was for life. She could not understand desertion; it was something so huge, so monstrous that the notion of it made her little heart break."
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"You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great."
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"The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story."
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"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own."
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"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."
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"You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing."
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"Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!"
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"It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different."
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"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done."
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"Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'."
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"Success is loving life and daring to live it."
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"I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle."
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"How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?"
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"Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives."
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"I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving."
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"Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life"
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