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Life Quotes by Alice Munro
- Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
- I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind…
- It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I…
- People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.
- The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your…
- I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim…
- If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I…
- He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.
- I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked…
- And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down…
- In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
- Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.
- There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing…
- It’s just life. You can’t beat life.
- She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
- Things have changed, ofcourse. There are counsellors at the ready. Kindness and understanding. Life is harder for some, we're told. Not their fault, even if…
- They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle