If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
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Related If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g... MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ... MARGARET MEAD I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and sw... PATTIE MAES Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really... MARK TWAIN You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old... DAVID CAMERON There is something about hanging around people who are in pursuit of excellence, and those who are c... SD WARD Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things ... BOB RICHARDS Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will
really accomplish great things ... BOB RICHARDS You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you…people who ar... DANIELE LANZAROTTA Associate with people who are likely to improve you. SENECA Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences : be they physical. social, intellectua... TARIQ RAMADAN Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People wh... ADAM BEACH When you usher, you meet a lot of people who are not involved with the theater, but (who still consi... GRACE MORGAN My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an ex... KHALED HOSSEINI The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to li... YOGI BHAJAN It brings a sense of hope for people with disabilities who are so misunderstood, and it brings hope ... MATT BROOKS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not... STEPHEN FRY For the few people who stayed (in Port Arthur), they could lose their lives. That's a very real poss... CARL GRIFFITH Who you choose to surround yourself with will determine if you fail, or if you will succeed. Assets ... STEVEN WOLFF Regardless of wealth, older Americans carry an unacceptable burden of suffering in their last year o... MARIA SILVEIRA A truly successful person works much and hard. Good luck come to those who are working hard and dili... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of the... DAVID OYELOWO You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. These are not people you might associate with firearms ownership or competition. We have a lot of di... ALAN DEAL There are people who happily welcome change in their lives. However, there are some who do not seem ... MAICHEE SUMMER Maybe (people) will enjoy it and continue to do it for the rest of their lives. DEANNA KRAUTNER Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have ... JEFFREY KLUGER There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You... JOSé N. HARRIS There are other kinds of damage, to the people in your life, to your sense of who you are and what y... MARYA HORNBACHER Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively: Associate yourself with people who think ... ROY T. BENNETT We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such... IAIN DUNCAN SMITH Be with a person who treats you like their crown, proudly honoring you infront of the world. HENNA SOHAIL Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you ... IMAM ALI My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard o... DAVID SEDARIS Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, ... BARBARA "CUTIE" COOPER If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemable JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The road of life is strewn with the bodies of promising people. People who show promise, yet lack th... IYANLA VANZANT Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to k... PAM GRIER If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize, who you are and what you want to become in life, ... SHANNON L. ALDER People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which... LAURENCE STERNE People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which... LAURENCE STERNE There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance... People who survive through th... STEVE MARABOLI There's continuity even if they move to a new community. This will follow them for the rest of their... BLAKE IRVING Every moment brings with it thousands of golden opportunities. Every minute is a store-house of ‘c... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that'... SARAH GADON Life is going by, and if you don't do something about your dreams and make them a reality and st... ELLEN GREENE There are many people in Long Beach who are voting independent of political knowledge, and will vote... LEONARD REMO Once you are aware of wrong done , you will hopefully not repeat them again. If you do, the sense of... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you... SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you... ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you... FRANCIS OF ASSISI YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM When you begin to appreciate the great potentials you have on your inside,... CLEMENT OGEDEGBE If you reveal who you truly are, you will attract the people who will most complement your life EL HAJI NERO In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA Without conversion of potentials, almost nothing will exist. We could have a world of about 7.6billi... CLEMENT OGEDEGBE It is who you are that matters and not how you look. LUFFINA LOURDURAJ the seriousness of emotional deprivation: It is not difficult to understand how children ... MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not e... RICHARD SIMMONS If the African stars do not rise, are not known, remain obscure, their stories are not told – who ... ARCHIBALD MARWIZI Do not let any of them tell you who you are. You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the s... CASSANDRA CLARE YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability t... STEPHEN COVEY People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability t... STEPHEN R. COVEY When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the mot... TOM CRUISE There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best ... RACHEL PLATTEN You see, people are everywhere. They are everything. No matter who we are, or what we do, people are... S.R. CRAWFORD Your today’s struggle will inculcate the strength which you need for tomorrow. Each time we are pu... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity,... FRANCIS OF ASSISI An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. FRED A. ALLEN An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. FRED ALLEN This is of what your Lord has revealed to you of wisdom, and do not associate any other god with All... QURAN If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accep... SAAIF ALAM We must resolve to live our lives and to build our lives in such a way, that if every ounce of fame ... C. JOYBELL C. The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ... MAYA ANGELOU When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. BRUNO TONIOLI The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Do you Realize with all these brillant minds on here, if you put just a little into someone else’s... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD "In the graveyards of our Patriotic dead are those who gave their very lives, for liberty and the pu... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN if there is any worry in your mind, and if at that moment the words 'My Lord' comes to your lips, th... SWAMI SHARNANAND JI You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream... NICHOLAS SPARKS It's easy to never make a mistake, when you are hiding yourself away from the possibility of making ... C. JOYBELL C. A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract pe... MARISA BERENSON What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the p... DOUGLAS COUPLAND You don't need to paint a perfect picture of yourself or your life for anybody. Just be real. If peo... AKIROQ BROST When life has torn everything from you and kicked you even when you are down, all you can really do ... GARY F EVANS... Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not t... ROY T. BENNETT The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away ... TERTULLIAN If you have to boast about what you do for a living to attract attention, attraction or approval, th... DONNA LYNN HOPE You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream... NICHOLAS SPARKS Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? O... DAN PEARCE Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never k... SHANNON L. ALDER Live your life the way you want not how other's think you should. If you're not happy with who you a... SARA DEWIG History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as lon... TARAN KILLAM
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TOM STOPPARD Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie t... TOM STOPPARD My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation f... TOM STOPPARD I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much abou... TOM STOPPARD All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who wr... TOM STOPPARD Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it. TOM STOPPARD I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that a... TOM STOPPARD Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero. TOM STOPPARD Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? TOM STOPPARD It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can w... TOM STOPPARD [Now] Bach ... a splash in the making. 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TOM STOPPARD I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge We... TOM STOPPARD GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista... TOM STOPPARD A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. TOM STOPPARD There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word ... TOM STOPPARD Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came acro... TOM STOPPARD Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on stagin... TOM STOPPARD One of the reasons why there are so many versions of Chekhov is that translations date in a way that... TOM STOPPARD The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. 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