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    12 October 2009
    “So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. Eventually feels a lot better than actually.”
    Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy

    tv life love fate risk

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    16 September 2009
    “I hadn’t been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called ‘bee yard etiquette’. She reminded me that the world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don’t be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don’t be an idiot; wear long sleeves and pants. Don’t swat. Don’t even think about swatting. If you feel angry, whistle. Anger agitates while whistling melts a bee’s temper. Act like you know what you’re doing, even if you don’t. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

    book human condition life

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    26 August 2009
    “When you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that’s a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us… And I know if I’m going to have any life anymore it’s because I’m still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that’s what living is, the six inches in front of your face.”
    Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday

    growing old life movie football

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    23 July 2009
    “Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake. It was something else. A get-together on Easter Island. You, the botched clone of you, the Miami Dolphins; Coco-Puffs, paper plates, a dwindling supply of clam juice. That was life.”
    tao lin (via unicornology)

    life life is hard

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    21 July 2009
    “I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball.”
    Tina Fey

    life simple pleasures

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    08 July 2009
    “To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.”
    Confucius

    virtue life

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    25 June 2009
    “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.”
    African Proverb

    risk life proverb

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    24 June 2009
    “This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.”
    Hafiz

    love life

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    22 June 2009
    “Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”
    Maya Angelou

    life motto thriving

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    16 June 2009
    “There’s no point to any of this. It’s all just a… a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know… a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle…”
    Ethan Hawke, Reality Bites

    movie gratitude life love