#life

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#best #birth #fired #life #luck

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#decide #difference #just #know #life

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#blind eye #day #every #every day #eye

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#exercise #function #generosity #know #life

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#always #dies #drawn #finished #late

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. ↗

— May Sarton

#agree #ambiguous #best #clear #crystal

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#i #kept #life #my life #shampoo