Quotes by Angelina Jolie

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

— Angelina Jolie

Education

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

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Education

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

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Life

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

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Wisdom

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

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Wisdom

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

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Wisdom

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

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Happiness

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

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Life

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

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Happiness

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

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Love

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

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Happiness

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

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Wisdom

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

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Wisdom

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

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Wisdom

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

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Life

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

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Wisdom

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

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Life

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

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Happiness

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

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Wisdom

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

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Life

I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

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Life

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

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Wisdom

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

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Love

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

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Love