Top 100 Lives Are Quotes
#1. I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
Victoria Osteen
#2. I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education my life is diminished and all of our lives are enhanced if they get that good education. It is a shared enterprise and we need to recognize that.
Tom Wolf
#3. We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.
Ramona Koval
#4. Turns out brain injuries are hard to live with." He paused. "Or even just be around. People don't like when they're lives are upended by something they can't see." Caden
Tijan
#6. Hey, old friend. What do you say, old friend? Make it okay, old friend, Give an old friendship a break. Why so grim? We're going on forever. You, me, him - too many lives are at stake ... - STEPHEN SONDHEIM, OLD FRIENDS
Neil Gaiman
#7. Most people who spend their lives are dreaming of having a summer house somewhere in the suburb of their city where they could lie in the hot sun all day long, drinking coffee and juice. They think they are enjoying life, but really they are spending life.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
#9. Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.
Brad Pitt
#11. The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another
Jack Kornfield
#12. We are in charge of our own lives and how we spend our time. You should never do something you don't want to do. Lives are incredibly short. If it doesn't feel right to do something then you have permission to not do it. Who cares what other people will think?
Shannon Kaiser
#13. We know our lives are chaotic, but we insist that everything happen in an orderly way and be logically conceived.
Jerzy Kosinski
#14. Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
David Mitchell
#15. I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
Emma Thompson
#16. You have to be gentle with the young, W. says. They're a gentle generation, like fauns, he says, and require a special tenderness. Their lives are going to be bad--very bad--and, at the very least, we should be tender with them, and not remind them of what is to come.
Lars Iyer
#18. Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that's how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It's because they've seen the depths.
Brianna Wiest
#19. We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.
Swami Vivekananda
#20. Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult.
Christian Slater
#21. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign
Randy Alcorn
#22. I think the closest any of us may come to lasting happiness is in seeing to the needs of others; I think the same may be true for those who go in sunlight, though their lives are so short that many will not discover this in time.
Christopher Buehlman
#23. The wisdom of that moment of pure emotion resonates with me still: that the dearest and most enduring moments of our lives are sometimes the quietest ones.
Christine Montross
#24. Time is never time at all. You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth. And our lives are forever changed. We will never be the same. The more you change, the less you feel.
Billy Corgan
#25. Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
Natalie Goldberg
#26. Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.
Henry Rollins
#28. Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.
Shin Kyung-sook
#29. If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?
Anne Graham Lotz
#31. True, most married men are convinced that their lives are dedicated to the family, and from a material standpoint this might be true. But it takes more than food in the fridge and two cars in the garage to keep a family going.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#32. When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.
John Rhys-Davies
#33. We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
Paul Hawken
#34. Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'
Andrew Forrest
#35. Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.
Joan Erickson
#36. All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy,
Gregory Maguire
#37. Our lives are the best school in the universe because we all have to face happiness and madness
Dalin Shu
#38. Most people's lives are cluttered up with things: material things, things to do, things to think about. Their lives are like the history of humanity, which Winston Churchill defined as "one damn thing after another." Their minds are filled up with the clutter of thoughts, one thought after another.
Eckhart Tolle
#39. Just as we have been given hope, we carry that hope; and for as long as we carry that hope, we learn to spread hope; and as we spread hope, lives are inevitably changed, and saved. What beautiful meaning hope gives to life!
Kcat Yarza
#40. Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Lin Yutang
#41. When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.
Robin McKinley
#42. And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone
Stephen Schwartz
#43. Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
Benjamin Franklin
#44. Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can't. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn't perfect and neither are we.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. If you believe that every life has equal value, it's revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: "This can't be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving."
Bill Gates
#46. Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.
George Bernard Shaw
#47. Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
Euripides
#48. Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual's life.
Milan Kundera
#49. I believe seeing earth a small blue ball in the vast dark ocean of space, gives you a new perspective on life and what is important. You can see how small we are as compared to the universe and how fragile our lives are.
Anousheh Ansari
#50. Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.
Lynn Shelton
#51. Our lives are a continuing journey - and we must learn and grow at every bend as we make our way, sometimes stumbling, but always moving, toward the finest within us.
Gerald Coffee
#52. Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
Tao Lin
#53. If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.
William J. Clinton
#54. It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.
Charles Edward Merriam
#55. The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.
Jeanette Winterson
#56. Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.
Subhas Chandra Bose
#57. The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
Renae Jones
#58. Just like a movie, our lives are simply a series of individual moments, snapshots in time.
Bruce Van Horn
#59. All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.
Frederick Lenz
#60. However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#61. All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.
Dan Simmons
#62. The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
Bryan Stevenson
#63. Pragmatism is cold comfort when millions of lives are in the balance," conceded Boucher. "It's a little like saying, 'Sorry, I can't rescue you from drowning until I finish waxing my car.'" The president chuckled
Jeremy Robinson
#64. What's more, she lacked the good sense to understand how our lives are enriched by the minor interactions that present themselves every day.
Miriam Karmel
#65. I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.
Richard Paul Evans
#66. Our lives are measured by the love we give, the wisdom we impart, the laughter we create, the truth we tell, the tears we dry, and the wounds we heal.
David W. Wiersbe
#67. Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men ... whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.
Bertrand Russell
#68. What did Shakespeare say? Or little lives are rounded with a sleep.
Michael Cunningham
#69. If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up.
Wilford W. Andersen
#70. People who look like human beings are not human beings. Strange people are amongst us. We must be careful. Our lives are changing. Our gods are silent. Our ancestors are silent. A great something is going to come from the sky and change the face of the earth.
Ben Okri
#71. I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.
Ingrid Michaelson
#72. Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.
Anne Frank
#73. The ages between birth and age 5 are
the foundation upon which successful
lives are built.
Laura Bush
#74. All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
Mavis Gallant
#75. We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
Ivy Baker Priest
#76. People at different stages of their lives are doing different things, and they're all using Google.
Susan Wojcicki
#77. I knew that not all lives are equal, that the time we live in affects the person we are, more than I had ever thought. Some have a harder chance. Some get no chance at all. With great sadness, I saw so many people born in the wrong time to be happy.
Andrew Sean Greer
#78. If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.
Katherine Paterson
#79. Maybe we ought to consider that sometimes the most destructive outcomes in our lives are the ones that we've created.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#80. Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums - and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen.
Charles De Lint
#81. Do you believe people can change their fate, or do you think our lives are mapped out before us? I mean, do you think we're each doomed to die a certain death?
Joanne Owen
#82. I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.
Shawn Amos
#83. Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
Yahya Jammeh
#84. Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
Jane Campion
#85. Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
Epictetus
#86. Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#87. People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.
Eric Hoffer
#88. I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's ... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'
Stephanie Zimbalist
#89. Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.
Takashi Nagai
#90. I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.
Jerry Stahl
#91. Our lives are Mobius strips, misery and wonder simultaneously. Our destinies are infinite, and infinitely recurring.
Joyce Carol Oates
#92. Our lives are just our genes and our upbringing. We simply act out the script that was forced upon us.
Orson Scott Card
#93. There are others whose lives are blessed when a missionary serves, such as the members of his family who support him, pray for him, and try to live worthy of him.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#94. Our lives are born of the Ki of the universe. Let us give thanks for being born not as plants and animals, but as human beings blessed with a universal mind. Let us pledge to fulfill our missions by helping to guide the development and creation of the universe.
Koichi Tohei
#95. Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.
Anne Lamott
#96. Your lives are on two separate tracks and it seems as though there's simply no going back. And as much as you love her and cherish the memories you've shared together, you know in your heart that the friendship has run its course.
Mandy Hale
#97. You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tip
out of our favor?"
She had no answer.
Kiersten White
#98. Many believers' entire lives are reduced to nothing more than a sin management program, running the endless treadmill of trying to please God by doing more for Him or trying to sin less.
Paul Silway
#99. Holistic living means that your spiritual, relational, emotional, intellectual, physical, and financial lives are working together.
Tsh Oxenreider
#100. The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways
that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.
Will Schwalbe
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