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John Knowles Quotes: Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.
         

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.


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I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.



There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.



I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.



It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart



What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.



As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.



But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.



Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.



Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.



We are all born equally far from the sun.

We are all born equally far from the sun.





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Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

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I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.



I don't know if people really know, when you shoot a TV show like you're really family and it really works, it's because it seems real to everybody, even to us. We were all so very close.

I don't know if people really know, when you shoot a TV show like you're really family and it really works, it's because it seems real to everybody, even to us. We were all so very close.



When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.



You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.

You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.



Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate.

Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate.



A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.




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