Top 100 Life Takes You Quotes

#1. If I had planned my life, it never would have ended up like this. So maybe it's kind of fun not to plan. Maybe it's more fun just to see where life takes you.

Joanna Gaines

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#2. You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.

Tim O'Brien

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#3. We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

Paul Newman

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#4. The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

Iyanla Vanzant

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#5. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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#6. to ignore life at the proper time takes a special wisdom: like a Happy New Year to you all.

Charles Bukowski

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#7. When you die, your soul crosses the Dusk between life and the Blank Sea. The journey takes forty-nine days,

David Mitchell

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#8. Sometimes it takes you to lose something you rely have to learn the good of what you really had.

Auliq Ice

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#9. Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

Chris Rock

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#10. Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#11. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.

Archibald Marwizi

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#12. Fear is a prison. A feeling of crippling power that spreads darkness within. It blinds. It questions. It takes over every decision we make, coloring it with doubt. Fear, for most of us, rules our lives, and it's only when you conquer it that you can truly live your life to the fullest.

Mia Asher

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#13. In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique ... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

Clay Guida

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#14. Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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#15. Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#16. Ultimately you want to do something in life that people will remember. And with Buffy, I did that. I don't feel like I need to achieve something. I just do it because it's fun. And that takes the pressure off.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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#17. When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

Philip Gulley

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#18. Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

Iris Apfel

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#19. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less but it is so much beautiful if humanity takes much from you, it is an investment into life.

Auliq Ice

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#20. There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.

Karleen Koen

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#21. It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.

Benoite Groult

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#22. And no renown can render you well-known:
For if you think that fame can lengthen life
By mortal famousness immortalized,
The day will come that takes your fame as well,
And there a second death for you awaits.

Boethius

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#23. It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.

Kate Pierson

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#24. I'll do whatever it takes to get you back in my life.

Faith Sullivan

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#25. When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Ricky Williams

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#26. Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life.

Charles F. Glassman

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#27. When you have a dream and are committed to achieving it, your life takes on new meaning. By unfolding a dream, you discover what makes you happy and brings you joy.

Lynn A. Robinson

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#28. (Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth making. Also, it allows you luxuries like scorn and flippancy.

Thomas M. Disch

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#29. life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing

Jane Marks

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#30. After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Brittany Murphy

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#31. Baby, it's either laugh or cry and crying takes way too much energy. If you can't find humor in the shit life heaps on you, you really will grow miserable.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#32. My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

Sally Pearson

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#33. The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.

Leon Brown

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#34. Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Robert Biswas-Diener

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#35. I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.

Anthony Hopkins

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#36. You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat. But it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you musn't suffer from being wrong.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#37. Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity, every moment of your life and looks after you and you feel completely secured, one with the Divine and enjoy the blessings of the Divine.

Nirmala Srivastava

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#38. One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

Earl Nightingale

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#39. When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.

Carla H. Krueger

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#40. Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed.

Archibald Marwizi

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#41. You feel out of control, but we can't control everything that happens in life. Sometimes we just have to go where the tide takes us and know we'll cope with whatever comes along.

Sarah Morgan

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#42. It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.

Rita Rudner

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#43. Amy: I never knew you drank wine.
Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life.
*takes sip and spits it out in disgust*

Steven Moffat

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#44. I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

Shirley Henderson

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#45. All the world talks, knowledge or information, takes you nowhere unless it's applied into life. It's only the experience, which allows you to see, beyond the present state.

Roshan Sharma

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#46. The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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#47. Forever. Mine. With me. Wherever life takes us. I want my life to be with you. Marry me, Maren.

Maya Banks

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#48. Take advantage of life, before life takes advantage of you

Marcus Newman

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#49. Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

Dan Millman

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#50. It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.

Justin Langer

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#51. The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

Cate Marvin

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#52. Sometimes Life Takes you down on an escalator only to lead you to the plane where you will fly

Samer Chidiac

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#53. Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

John Updike

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#54. I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

Madeleine Peyroux

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#55. If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.

Susan Polis Schutz

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#56. And then you discover what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn your life upside down. That there's nothing you can have, nothing you've earned, nothing you've paid for with blood and loss and suffering ... that the world can't take away from you.

Simon R. Green

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#57. Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

Zig Ziglar

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#58. You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

Eckhart Tolle

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#59. Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.

Chris Matakas

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#60. I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

Mandy Moore

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#61. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.

Etgar Keret

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#62. Yes, it takes a lot of plant material to make a drop of oil, but a small drop of oil then contains the full force of the entire plant- of all of those plants. When you have a bottle of rose oil, you have the life force of 5,000 pounds of roses. That's a lot of plant. And that means a lot of life.

Andrew Edwin Jenkins

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#63. I think it's weird how vanilla people just jump into a bed and fuck and don't ever relish the moment, don't talk to each other about what works and what doesn't. So many people just expect sex to happen, but really great sex takes work, like everything in life. You have to talk to your partner.

Lexi Blake

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#64. I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Rodney King

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#65. The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

Danielle LaPorte

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#66. Maybe that's why I wrote this letter,Alina. Maybe it's a promise-that I'll survive tomorrow and the day after that, and somehow, no matter what it takes, I'll see you safe again...
M.

Leigh Bardugo

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#67. When your characters are not white hats or black hats but something in between, you do have to be very careful about your details. So, that takes a while. I'm not interested in white hats and black hats. I don't think that's how people are in real life.

Victor Levin

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#68. Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead and takes its own turn. Just follow the paths it lays out before you. And you may find, at some sudden turn, a miracle waiting just for you.

Jyoti Arora

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#69. Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

Ally Condie

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#70. Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

Ann Brashares

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#71. It only takes for one person to remind you that you are special, and then your whole life is changed.

Kellee Stewart

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#72. The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.

Frederick Lenz

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#73. Life's journey is but a series of steps. It only takes one step in a different direction to change that from good to bad, or from good to even better. Make sure your next step takes you in the right directions.

Jean Williams

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#74. Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

Chuck Barris

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#75. It only takes one person to change your life -- you.

Ruth Casey

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#76. It only takes a second for you to call a girl fat and she will starve herself for the rest of her life. Think before you act.

Harry Styles

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#77. Life has certain things planned. I find, for some people, it takes you places you don't want to go but the path leads to where you need to be.

Kristen Ashley

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#78. You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

Simon Sinek

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#79. Women who live the life of their dreams don't get there by being dainty and darling. They demand what they want and they do what it takes to make it happen. That could mean breaking a few rules, a few hearts, and a few habits along the way, especially the habit of apologizing for who you are.

Laurie Sue Brockway

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#80. There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

Nathaniel Kahn

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#81. I loved throwing a baseball. It is so important to find something in life you feel crazy about. Because you are so passionate you naturally practice. The hard work that it takes to do something well will come easily.

Jim Abbott

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#82. The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.

Raymond Chandler

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#83. If someone takes it upon themself to compliment you, don't explain to them why the compliment is misplaced or undeserving, say "thank you" and smile; that was the purpose.

Travis Culliton

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#84. If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

Joyce Chapman

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#85. I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.

Ally Condie

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#86. I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

Ai Yazawa

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#87. Sometimes the river of life takes you to the rocks. The letter,

Gregory David Roberts

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#88. There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior.

John Eldredge

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#89. Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.

Wendelin Van Draanen

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#90. No body takes you serious until you start making a threat

Just Me

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#91. A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.

Elsa Schiaparelli

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#92. Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

Estelle Laure

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#93. You is blessin' folks with your dollars and service, but a dollar bill and plate of food ain't changin' a life. That takes love.

Denver Moore

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#94. Don't worry about the past, it's only a shadow wanting to follow you under the brilliance of the sun. And the future is only the moon, still glowing in honor of the sun. Live in the moment and embrace where life takes you.

Jes Fuhrmann

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#95. There comes a time when the body takes over the life. There comes a time when the body's urges, the body's needs,
dictate the life. You have no idea you are giving the body the key. But you hand it over. And then it's in control. You mess with the wiring and the wiring takes charge.

David Levithan

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#96. I have to try. I can't leave him there. You don't understand, Vik. I love him, and I can't let him pay for something I did. I don't care what it takes, we have to save him. (Alix)
Those words, little girl, just saved your life. (Shahara)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#97. Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.

Archibald Marwizi

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#98. Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

Zig Ziglar

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#99. Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage.

Gloria Feldt

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#100. When everything seems to be going wrong with you, you must remember the airplane takes off against the wind

Sunday Adelaja

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