Top 100 Quotes About A Person's Life
#1. Childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.
Kate Green
#3. The most special times in a person's life are not meant to last forever. They're like bubbles rising from a plastic ring dipped into a soapy solution. The soap bubbles rise, with the sun flashing brilliant colors, then bursts into a showery memory mist.
Julius Thompson
#4. Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain
#5. When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#6. You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.
Jeff Olson
#7. Blessings come into the areas of a person's life, where he is absolutely obedient to God.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
Richard Hell
#10. We may never know when the right word will transform a person's life.
Philip White
#11. A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#12. One of the most painful moments in a person's life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when there is more to look back on than ahead. And
Fredrik Backman
#13. And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real.
Denis Johnson
#14. A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything in a person's life.
Sam Harris
#15. Small experiences, the smallest, can make a difference in a person's life. Once they've had that experience, they're changed forever.
Kage Alan
#16. Like a firework, a person's life flashed brightest right before expiration.
Katherine McIntyre
#17. No matter how quiet and conformist a person's life seems, there's always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.
Haruki Murakami
#18. The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state ... Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.
James Allen
#19. A person's life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they're actually willing to sacrifice for it.
Craig Clevenger
#20. I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.
Scott Bradfield
#21. Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
Emo Philips
#22. Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
Paul Tournier
#23. Pain is holy ground in a person's life.
Jason Gray
#24. The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
William J. Johnston
#25. A person's life isn't orderly ... it runs about all over the place, in and out through time. The present's hardly there; the future doesn't exist. Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.
William Trevor
#26. It's risky to try to determine the moments when a person's life is changed forever. I don't even know if such moments exist.
Laurent Binet
#27. During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
Carol Tavris
#28. Memoirs are often about difficult things in a person's life. In my situation, my story starts with about the stupidest, most immoral thing I've ever done, one with terrible consequences.
Piper Kerman
#29. The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
Norman Sherry
#30. Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.
A-Trak
#31. It was something ... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.
Joe Hill
#32. Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.
Jackie Chan
#33. a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.
Holly Jacobs
#34. Lord's lamp sheds light on a person's life, searching the innermost parts.
Anonymous
#35. The value of a person's life may not be determined on the basis of his material standing.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#37. The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.
Javan
#38. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life.
Jay Asher
#39. Then again, it's not like there's a right way to end a person's life, is there?
Kami Garcia
#40. I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
Penelope Lively
#41. The main problem in a person's life is never his suffering; it's his sin.
Timothy J. Keller
#42. When all the normal patterns and routines of a person's life fell apart - and with such shocking suddenness - you had to find something you could hold onto, something that was both sane and predictable.
Stephen King
#43. I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
Steve Nash
#44. Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life.
Shelley K. Wall
#45. The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.
Thomas Starr King
#46. A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.
Marcus Aurelius
#47. Religion can reform a person's life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#48. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
#49. Any one episode, or even moment, in a person's life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that language is the best means we've found of approaching that kind of complexity.
Ben Fountain
#50. There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
Charlotte Bunch
#51. A full description of a person's life, however uneventful or uninteresting, fills a large folder.
Henning Mankell
#52. Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.
Orrin Woodward
#53. It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.
James Martin
#54. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life. Everything
Jay Asher
#55. There were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite self patience.
Chad Harbach
#56. I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.
Claire Legrand
#57. In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.
Toby Young
#58. Success does not come to a person's life by chance; you have to fight for it
Sunday Adelaja
#59. A simple tale, told at the right moment, transforms a person's life with the order its pattern brings to incoherent energies. (Myth and Education)
Ted Hughes
#61. In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.
Stephen Covey
#63. The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.
Joachim De Posada
#64. Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but definitely to be able to put a smile on someone's face. Or just waking up every day, trying to figure out how I can change a person's life for the better.
Raheem Devaughn
#65. Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.
Jeannette Walls
#66. There are little elements in a person's life, minor fibers that become unintentionally tangled with our personality. Sometimes it's a patent phrase, sometimes it's a perfume, sometimes it's a wristwatch.
Sloane Crosley
#67. There are two times in a person's life when there is the possibility of pure happiness: in youth and in summer.
Brielle A. Marino
#68. Sometimes when we mine a person's life, we find a heart of gold beyond the crusty exterior. - Janet Graham -
Gary Chapman
#69. Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#70. There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
Buzz Aldrin
#71. there was a reason for everything that happened and that all of those reasons were like threads that, over time, wove together into the pattern of a person's life. Every thread was necessary for the final pattern to be complete.
Erin Nicholas
#72. In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever.
Karen McQuestion
#73. Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#74. Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.
Dane Cook
#75. Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.
James Allen
#76. I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.
Jeff Kinney
#77. There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.
John Boyne
#78. Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society ...
Marie Brennan
#79. You told me once that too much good in a person's life will stunt their growth. You said pain is necessary, because in order for a person to succeed, they must first learn to conquer adversity. And that's what you do ... you deliver adversity where you see fit.
Colleen Hoover
#80. Salvation is not something that happens only at the end of a person's life. Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#81. There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.
Jodi Picoult
#82. It is vital that you do not change the path before you. I have told you, many times, that certain events must happen in a person's life for a reason, always for a reason. The events that will unfold before you ... they must happen, Heather. They have to.
Elizabeth Morgan
#83. Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.
Leonard Mlodinow
#84. When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
William Sanderson
#85. It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a meaning and purpose to life. More specifically: There is a meaning and purpose to your life.
Matthew Kelly
#86. There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay
#87. As mysterious as it seems, our prayers have the power to live after us. Spanning years, sometimes centuries, even millennia. Reaching across time to take the broken pieces of a person's life and gently place them into what can only be described as a divine work.
Ken Gire
#88. It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.
Russell Banks
#89. It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.
Daisy Hernandez
#90. The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.
Anuj
#91. I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.
Vincent Piazza
#92. A person's life persuades better than his word.
Aristotle.
#93. Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person's life must remain private for the preservation of one's sanity is almost frivolous.
Aysha Taryam
#94. the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.
Henning Mankell
#95. Work is of utmost importance in a person's life and not only as a means of meeting one's needs at various levels of Maslow's pyramid. Believe me, I speak from experience when I say that good, focused hard work is also one of the most effective remedies for depression.
Indu Muralidharan
#96. The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.
Robert Ringer
#97. if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves.
Viktor E. Frankl
#98. A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
Rachel Roy
#99. You miss a lot of a person's life when you don't keep in touch. Maybe that's the point.
Bryant A. Loney
#100. They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.
Daryl Gates
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