Knowing What We Want In Life Quotes

#1. I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing that it would have pros and cons, highs and lows in this sport that is so macho. I kept this hidden for many, many years.

Orlando Cruz

#2. What could I say? ( ... ) That I wanted to scream at the unfairness of it all? ( ... ) Encouraging me the way he had, knowing that there was no new century for me, no new life for this girl.

Jacqueline Kelly

#3. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

#4. Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive

Sunday Adelaja

#5. There's a version of the future in my head where I stay here forever....Bleak, I know. But, still, there's a lot of comfort that comes with knowing how your life is going to turn out. I've never had a surprise turn out in my favor.

Julie Murphy

#6. I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Halle Berry

#7. There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.

Archibald Marwizi

#8. Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.

Peter Heller

#9. Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

Frederick Buechner

#10. He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.

Heidi Tankersley

#11. Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.

Igor Babailov

#13. Rich is not having more money. Rich is knowing the secret to getting everything you want in life.

Thomas L. Pauley

#14. Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life challenges and head on, knowing there are no gurantees, and give it all they've got, and never think it's too late, or too early to begin.

Anonymous

#15. I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.

Mary J. Blige

#16. But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it's about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There's not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we're in the middle . . . and it's okay to camp out there for a while.

Melissa Tagg

#17. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.

Christopher Poindexter

#18. She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even simply just to admit what we really want, and then to have the courage to reach for it.

Candice Proctor

#19. People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.

Joyce Meyer

#20. My love runs deep,
strong and pure.
If only it was your love,
instead of this disease.
I could die knowing,
there was no cure.

Melissa Mercer

#21. I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.

Barbara Christian

#22. Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.

William Stafford

#23. For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Carol Tavris

#24. Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

Bryant McGill

#25. Knowing someone is not enough
You need to understand them
Because knowing and understanding are different

Subhasis Das

#26. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

#27. The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.

Andrei Makine

#28. Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#29. I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

Tom Cruise

#30. The chase was the best part, Hunting was intoxicating. And knowing I had the power to snuff out Nila Weaver's life the moment I caught her gave me a certain ... thrill.

Pepper Winters

#31. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.

Rita Zoey Chin

#32. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#33. Things that we do without knowing why are we doing them are usually the best things that we do.

Minhal Mehdi

#34. A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Charlie Munger

#35. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.

Elliot Mabeuse

#36. I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond

Carolyn Jessop

#37. Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.

Robert Hawkins

#38. There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Maya Angelou

#39. You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

Nigella Lawson

#40. Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Meghan O'Rourke