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  Life Quotes - Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices   “Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.   But...if me, my birth, if that's a thermodynamic miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!.   Yes. A...

  Life Quotes - Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength   “Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” ― Wendy Wasserstein   “Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.” ― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants   “I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.” ― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman   “If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no o...

  Life Quotes - What you stay focused on will grow   “Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace   “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt   “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.” ― David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives   “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” ― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living   “It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courag...

  Life Quotes - I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life   “Don’t bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everything as intensely as you can and keep whatever you felt as a gift from God. The best way to destroy the bridge between the visible and invisible is by trying to explain your emotions.” ― Paulo Coelho, Brida   “It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   “...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion   “When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   “Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor   “Until you step into the unknown, you...

  Life Quotes - I don't want to live   “When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck hers...