Life Takes You Places Quotes

#1. I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

Mandy Moore

#2. If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

Morihei Ueshiba

#3. Well, they're queer; but they're all very old, and so they're bound to be. But they're not mental,' explained Mother; adding candidly, 'Anyway, not enough to be put away.

Gerald Durrell

#4. Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Sharon Salzberg

#5. We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.

Jennifer Niven

#6. Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things.

Alexander McQueen

#8. Because they're your family - you don't expect that shit from family. But the fact is that, first and foremost, they're people, and people can be dicks.

Suzanne Wright

#9. A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom.

Mark Lawrence

#10. Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you home.

Melissa McClone

#11. When all else fails, take a vacation.

Betty Williams

#12. Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and free
Whether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a tree
Or rolled in the arms of some nymph of the sea
Which is where we would all like to be, man!

Margaret Atwood

#13. We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

Robin Sacredfire

#14. I totally ignore the sheer number of bookshelves lining the far wall, even though I'm itching to explore them, because, well, as everyone knows, if the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, the way to a girl's is through a good book.

Julie Johnson

#15. Life takes us to unexpected places ... love brings us home.

Unknown Author 770

#16. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.

Erin Morgenstern

#17. Cletus takes a sizeable gulp from the bottle, then points at Arden. You'd learn something from that one, boy. She's a hard worker. A survivor. Gets things done. That girl doesn't know it, but she's going places in life.

Anna Banks

#18. Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#19. Getting knocked down in life is a given; getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Zig Ziglar

#20. Eating Primal Blueprint style for the rest of your life is much cheaper than long-term prescription drug regimens or extensive doctor visits or hospital stays for cardiac bypass surgery or cancer treatments.

Mark Sisson

#21. First Globals are ready to go anywhere, experience everything, and work and live in exotic places, and for them, family life takes priority over work life and a flexible, diverse, collaborative, fun learning environment is key.

Susan Scott

#22. Life has certain things planned. I find, for some people, it takes you places you don't want to go but the path leads to where you need to be.

Kristen Ashley

#23. Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can become
the (d)anger within your life."

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

Leonard Perlmutter

#24. I often find that once a child unlocks the secret of words, they hunger for them. There is a kind of magic in reading. It takes the mind to places where the body may not go, allowing one to forget, for a while, life's troubles.

Liana LeFey

#25. The single most important takeaway from Stage Four is that Tribal Leaders follow the core values of the tribe no matter what the cost.

Dave Logan

#26. The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.

Walter Russell