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Life Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in…
- The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In…
- She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to…
- I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness,…
- I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let…
- Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to…
- At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes,…
- I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
- We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own 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