Quotes About Being Where You Want To Be In Life

#1. Times being like they is and all. But I figure times been hard all my life. Now don't seem so much worse'n any other. - Author: Mildred D. Taylor

#2. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. - Author: George Gordon Byron

#3. There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit. - Author: Matthew Perry

#4. Until now I have never really lived! Life on earth is a creeping, crawling business. It is in the air that one feels the glory of being a man and of conquering the elements. There is an exquisite smoothness of motion and the joy of gliding through space. It is wonderful! - Author: Gabriele D'Annunzio

#5. It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. - Author: Judy Collins

#6. I think, if you spend a day or as many people do a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially. - Author: Brian Eno

#7. As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures, I sense my dad would approve. I know he would want me to be happy. - Author: Lisa J. Shultz

#8. I love you, too, James, but that doesn't give you a free pass." "No, it doesn't. Being your Dom does that, Love. I've compromised far more for you than I've ever done for anyone or anything in my life. Controlling you sexually is something I won't be bending on ... - Author: R.K. Lilley

#9. Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being. - Author: Kate Atkinson

#10. On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy. - Author: Henry Hampton

#11. Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals. - Author: Paulo Coelho

#12. Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life. - Author: Samuel Alexander

#13. It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was. - Author: Tim Tharp

#14. The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work. - Author: Lucas Grabeel

#15. What is done unto people is also being done unto God - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#16. I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. - Author: Steve Maraboli

#17. You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be. - Author: Deborah Day

#18. You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat. - Author: Erica Jong

#19. She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being. - Author: Charles Frazier

#20. You reach a point in life where you realize that you might as well do what you need to do, because your being loved or not being loved is really a function of the people you encounter and not of yourself. That is an immensely liberating insight. - Author: Erica Jong

#21. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together. - Author: Bill McKibben

#23. If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life. - Author: Justin Martyr

#24. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. As for him "feeling dead", that's probably just a consequence of him being gone from your life for so long. In some sense he no longer feels real to you. - Author: Paula Hawkins

#26. My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. - Author: Caitlyn Jenner

#27. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her. - Author: Jacob Rothschild

#28. Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories. - Author: Daniel Radcliffe

#29. The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love. - Author: Kiran Joshi

#30. DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes." ROMANS 6:13B (TEV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of my life am I holding back from God? - Author: Rick Warren

#31. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you. - Author: Brandon Boyd

#32. Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life? - Author: Sigmund Freud

#33. I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being. - Author: Nasim Pedrad

#34. While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial right of every human being. The ultimate aim of medicine remains the defence and promotion of life. - Author: Pope Francis

#35. If it is awakened, it communicates a new life to the intelligence in which it lives, so that it becomes a living awareness of itself: and this awareness is not so much something that we ourselves have, as something that we are. It is a new and indefinable quality of our living being. - Author: Thomas Merton

#36. I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me know I wasn't much compared to them. And it's still like that. Guys like that keep you humble, being around them every day and realizing I'm still the little brother to them. - Author: A. J. Hawk