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Definition of Literally
Literally

According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh.

With close adherence to words; word by word.

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Literally Quotations

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
Wayne Dyer

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Paul McCartney

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'
Jim Carrey

Literally Translations

literally in French is textuelle
literally in Spanish is literalmente
literally in Swedish is bokstavligen, formligen


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