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Life Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse…
- My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in…
- I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've…
- Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at…
- There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so…
- And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway…
- Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder,…
- It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the…
- She has the gift of accepting her life.
- And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things…
- And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone…
- I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense…
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