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The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you. Twinkle Khanna

Good, Beautiful, Heart, Getting Older

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Chuck Palahniuk

People, Ideas, Powerful, Thought, Dream

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for. Adam Grant

Life, Thankful, Tragedy, Appreciate, You

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. Bernard Beckett

Fear, Confidence, Future, Curiosity

I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it. Jerry Hall

Life, Enjoy Life, Worry, Think, Enjoy

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. Jenna Morasca

Life, You, See, How, Delicate, Fades

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got. Tim Cook

Life, Tomorrow, You, Everything, Give

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift. Steven Pinker

Life, Purpose, Moment, Gift, More

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected. Sylvester Stallone

Strength, Strong, Men, World, Think

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece. Sylvia Kristel

Confidence, Self, Me, Self Confidence

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile. Russel Honore

People, Bad, Hot, Poor, More, Economy

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. Lewis Thomas

Nature, Man, Trying, Birds, Earth, Pond

It was an egregious violation of the American Constitution. We were innocent American citizens, and we were imprisoned simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. It shows us just how fragile our Constitution is. George Takei

Constitution, People, American, Look, Us

We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled. Barack Obama

Power, Alone, People, Long, Look, Way

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time. Carice van Houten

Time, Strong, Woman, Strong Woman, Play

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Small, Picture, Battle, Earth, You, Will

No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, 'That was a good day?'' Hope Jahren

Good, Today, Day, Good Day, Thinking

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. Tennessee Williams

Life, Strong, People, Reach, Person

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. Randolph Bourne

Precious, Things, Friendships, Other

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. Ted Cruz

Child, Blessing, Think, You, Liberty

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. Adlai E. Stevenson

Work, Love, Peace, Travel, Space, Safety

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

Best, World, United Nations, System

My happiness is very fragile. Marianne Faithfull

Happiness, Very

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history. Marcel Duchamp

Life, History, Memory, Curious, Fantasy

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people. Jonathan Ive

People, Process, Thought, Start, Changes

I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is. Bibi Bourelly

Life, People, Away, Seen, Pass, How

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