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Life Quotes by J D Salinger
- I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things,…
- Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
- I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
- I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
- He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people…
- I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding…
- If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just…
- The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy…
- I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine,…
- I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
- Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and…
- He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
- He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had…
- I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.
- You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather,…
- Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
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