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Related Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a st... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE [Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of] Uncle Tom?s Cabin, ... So thi... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunde... ANNIE BESANT The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beec... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us die... DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER No one Respect you in your real Life
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It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr... GARY F EVANS... Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in ... CRAIG GROESCHEL The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- ... ECKHART TOLLE The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in o... RAINER MARIA RILKE I've been told that there's a point in every soldier's life when he knows he's going to die. You exp... JULIE KAGAWA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are misera... LIEZI There’s no happy ending ... Nevertheless, we might well say that is exactly Harriet Beecher Stowe�... THOMAS A. SHIPPEY the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another. KAREN M. MCMANUS To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules d... DEYTH BANGER Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chant... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing t... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o... ST. AUGUSTINE Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Don't you think that says something? We affirm the personal sacrifice and courage of the troops ther... DAVE MARTIN Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this g... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It makes her real. We knew when we left the hospital that Hailey was going to die. And all you have ... AMANDA DIAMOND In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are... ROBERT GOOLRICK I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts tha... MICHAEL MEADE Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life. DONATELLA VERSACE Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but world... YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED Whatever we do in Life, let us not forget to enjoy it. Life is a Gift and will soon end. We may have... RVM The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. I... RAYMOND CHANDLER This instant is the only time there is. A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me. A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear. A COURSE IN MIRACLES Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER Hope is the believe that the promised will be fulfilled. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When the great white silence comes and fills the boughs of the trees with a thickening, glistening b... J. Z. KNIGHT We must grieve his passing, thank God for his life, and celebrate it. ... This is the end of a chapt... JAMES GASTON I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life... DANIEL BARENBOIM Life in the now, is gone tomorrow The only way to know is die Then to reveal its convenient lie. MARTIN DANSKY More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely i... CANDICE MILLARD In this case, golf is a means to an end. We can't change the course that someone's life has taken in... HALE IRWIN Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but ... ALEXANDRA MONIR If the one who gave me life wants the real me to die... then all I can do is die. SETONA MIZUSHIRO Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. LANGSTON HUGHES Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting p... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you allow mosquitoes to disturb your sound sleep, you shall never be able to wake up healthy and ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no rel... MARCEL PROUST To live your life in trust, in love, in compassion is an art that makes you truly happy. If you live... BANANI RAY Life is not a one day journey and we must journey in life taking a step after a step, and considerin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become re... CANDACE FLEMING I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone... EDWARD ALBEE Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER I know, for example, that Mr. Petersen did not experience the flow of time in the same way that I di... GAVIN EXTENCE Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eatin... GEORGE ELIOT When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quic... LAUREN DESTEFANO It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die. FERDINAND E. MARCOS So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident ... MARCUS J. BORG Life is a journey filled with lessons, hardships, heartaches, joys, celebrations and special moments... SUSAN SAMAROO Samurai are born to die. Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all... RICK REMENDER Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity... CHARLES DICKENS How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Discounting the fact that nobody knows what happens when we die--until we die, is pure ignorance. Be... SUMMER JEIRLES Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can yo... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI Life in the now, is gone tomorrow The only way to know is die Then to reveal its convenien... MARTIN DANSKY
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HARRIET MARTINEAU Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. HARRIET LERNER We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; ... HARRIET TUBMAN I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welco... HARRIET TUBMAN Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the sta... HARRIET TUBMAN Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than pray... HARRIET ROCHLIN Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. ... HARRIET MARTINEAU Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering. HARRIET ROSENSTEIN Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. HARRIET BRAIKER For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers ... HARRIET MARTINEAU Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. HARRIET MARTINEAU What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and whi... HARRIET MARTINEAU I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the... HARRIET TUBMAN There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the posses... HARRIET MARTINEAU Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. HARRIET MARTINEAU Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. HARRIET LERNER Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where t... HARRIET TUBMAN I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors ... HARRIET TUBMAN I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; ... HARRIET TUBMAN As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ... HARRIET TUBMAN I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my... HARRIET TUBMAN Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped... HARRIET TUBMAN I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. HARRIET TUBMAN I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was... HARRIET TUBMAN Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places ... HARRIET TUBMAN There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality... HARRIET HARMAN Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to... HARRIET EVANS I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't ... HARRIET TUBMAN I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. HARRIET MARTINEAU In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fiel... HARRIET TUBMAN I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it... HARRIET TUBMAN I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear ... HARRIET WALTER Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralising. HARRIET BRAIKER Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. HARRIET BRAIKER Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at al... HARRIET LERNER You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. HARRIET WOODS If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov... HARRIET MARTINEAU You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure prepara... HARRIET MARTINEAU You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure pre... HARRIET MARTINEAU I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are HARRIET MARTINEAU I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need ... HARRIET WALTER The administrative suspension was lifted as soon as my dues were received. HARRIET MIERS We needed to encourage additional African-American, Mexican-American representation on the council. HARRIET MIERS I believe employers should be able to pick the best qualified for any position to be filled consider... HARRIET MIERS I don't know off hand. Let me ask Thomas and Scalia what they think. HARRIET MIERS Obviously, we evaluated that this was the right time to settle and to resolve this matter and that i... HARRIET MIERS I truly believe if the governor told her she should be an Astronaut, she would do her best to become... HARRIET MIERS The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to... HARRIET LERNER