Life Phases Quotes

#1. I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'

Marcia Cross

#2. Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

Nikola Tesla

#3. Look in the mirror every day and say, I am in charge. You might not have control over every phase of your life, but you have more control than you realize, and you are responsible for your own happiness and success.

Harvey MacKay

#4. Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

E. M. Forster

#5. Life as observed only from the scientific point of view is bare abstraction; it is not concrete life; nor is life as observed only in the interrelated-will-attitude point of view the whole of life. Both are abstractions. Concrete life includes both phases.

Kaiten Nukariya

#6. My life is measured into two distinct phases . . . BC is before cellulite and AC is for after cellulite. Sad but so true!

Various

#7. (Peter) Best to remember that life is lived not just in phases but also in layers.

Nancy Woodruff

#8. I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. We tend to see life as a continuum, Julie, but really, it's a series of phases, generating a series of different selves. You leave one life behind and start another. And each time, a different version of yourself emerges.

Michelle Richmond

#10. Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.

Joseph Murphy

#11. I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!

Gene Roddenberry

#12. There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.

Dervla Murphy

#13. Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world
and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

Margaret Mead

#14. The commonplace needs no defence,Dullness is in the critic's eyes,Without a licence life evolvesFrom some dim phase its own surprise;Under these yellow-twinkling elms,Behind these hedges trimly shorn,As in a stable once, so hereIt may be born, it may be born.

William Plomer

#15. It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

Hilary Mantel

#16. After all, death and life are just two phases of the natural order of things. It seems silly to embrace birth and fear death.

Fiona Paul

#17. Our life moves in a cycle of construction and destruction. Ideas and phases; come, we implement, and then we let go.

Hina Hashmi

#18. Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way ... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

Gore Vidal

#19. I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays ...

Nora Ephron

#20. one must keep dreaming at various phases of life, and then work hard to realize those dreams.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#21. A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

Lucy Stone

#23. Being down is not abnormal; it's a virus that we all must contact at different times. Who you look up to recovery is what separates us! This phase has a terminal date.......

Bayode Ojo

#24. Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

Martha Stewart

#25. There have been many different phases and experiences in my life, which allow me to relate to many people in different ways.

Jai Uttal

#26. The world that we live in is made up of two phases, the real world and the fantasy world

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#27. I didn't know then that young girls were a sort of poison, infectious to the man of age; and that men of age justly take woman of age to cure themselves of the diseases of youth.

Roman Payne

#28. Maybe life was just a series of phases - one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I'd be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#29. Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

Marjorie Benton Cooke

#30. I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ...

Jimmy Buffett

#31. There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.

Bryant McGill

#32. Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Richard Halverson

#34. Sea of stretch'd ground-swells,
Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths,
Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves,
Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,
I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.

Walt Whitman

#35. I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

Steve Ballmer

#36. Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.

Emmet Fox

#37. I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

Sune Rose Wagner

#38. No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#39. Life is divided up into phases. Each one is very different from the others, and you have to be able to recognise what is expected of you in each phase. That's the secret of successful living

Kurt Vonnegut

#40. Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#41. You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.

Patrick Read Johnson

#42. So instead of feeling sorry for yourself, realize that your life, just like a developing child's, has phases
and now you're in the mommy phase.

Laura C. Schlessinger

#43. It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

Helene Deutsch

#44. There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Mary Norris

#45. Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again.

Richard Carlson

#46. Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it's not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn't been boy-centric.

Taylor Swift

#47. Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

John Darnielle

#48. The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.

Jorge Luis Borges

#49. If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

Karen Salmansohn

#50. My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

Mario Van Peebles