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Life Quotes by Louise Erdrich
- Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission…
- To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
- It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
- We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.
- A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
- Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
- Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You…
- We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to…
- If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so…
- ...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom
- What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
- She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught…
- Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband…
- Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You…
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