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Quote by Diane Ackerman
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just li

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

Other quotes by Diane Ackerman

Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. – Diane Ackerman

Category:
Sky & Clouds
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Diane Ackerman
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

Category:
Poetry
Author
Diane Ackerman
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

Category:
Love
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Other Quotes from
Life
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Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. – Mark Twain

Category:
Life

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Life

The quality of life is more important than life itself. – Alexis Carrel

Category:
Life

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. – Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945, referring to psychoanalysis

Category:
Life

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So did this horse excel a common one
In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone.
…What a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back. – William Shakespeare

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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. – Lenny Bruce

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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great. – Vivienne Westwood

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I know a lot of people think its monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but its not if youre enjoying what youre doing. I love to swim and I love to train. – Tracy Caulkins

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