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Life Quotes by Richard Ford
- What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.
- Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are…
- When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts.…
- Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
- I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
- I've been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.
- The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
- Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with…
- Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.
- I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.
- Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.
- What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to…
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- 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