Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life."
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Whole Life
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Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being."
Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work."
Serena Williams
Tennis Player
"I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life."
Peter Heller
Author
"Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it."
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"The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day."
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"Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you."
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"I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life."
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"My whole life has been decided by fate."
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"Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up."
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"The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it"
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"I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own."
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"Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge."
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"I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly."
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"We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words"
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"My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages."
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"Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life."
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"The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining."
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"I always felt guilty. My whole life."
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"You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life."
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"I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it."
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"I've been myself my whole life."
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"Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living."
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"You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?"
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"I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person."
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