Quotes About Former Lives

#1. The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

Martin Samuel

#2. 'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.

Iamblichus

#3. There's something about these obscure vignettes of former lives that's very powerful. Our woods are full of old cellar holes, tumbled-down chimneys, ancient scraggly lilacs absurdly tall still stretching toward the light.

Leslie Land

#4. Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#5. And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

Peter Matthiessen

#6. I refuse to cut the joy from the lives of others in fear I might lose my own. Only the former is definite, and may be controlled. The latter is up to fate.

Penelope Fletcher

#7. He ( Former Indian Prez, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam) let them touch his hand and in return, touched their lives.

Andy Paula

#8. I want to live our own lives, make our own decision and not live in the shadow of a former life"...... We owe ourself that much.

Danielle Fuller

#9. As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.

Dave Reichert

#10. As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness.

Pliny The Elder

#11. Becoming a coach has to be in your blood. There are hundreds and thousands of former athletes out there, but there are maybe only 10 people who want to dedicate their lives by taking on a job as a coach. Not only a master, a coach should also be a brother or sister to his apprentices.

Joe Taslim

#12. One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

Agatha Christie

#13. Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

Ingmar Bergman

#14. As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

Gwen Moore

#15. A therapist has to have clear boundaries, even with former clients. People already get into our heads - if they also get into our lives, there's a problem.

Louise Penny

#16. Don't panic, but there are three bears surrounding me in the barn.

Michele M. Reynolds

#17. Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

David Gemmell

#18. Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Marvin Ammori

#19. I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Pierre Soulages

#21. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

#22. Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Miranda Lambert

#23. If we throw judgments out, that is exactly what will return to us. What we give is exactly what we will receive. It doesn't matter if we throw out good or bad. It all comes back. It is a spiritual law.

Sandra M. Michelle

#24. Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

Richard Schickel

#25. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.

H.G.Wells

#26. It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.

Dianne Feinstein

#27. Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

Linwood Barclay

#28. When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.

Sholem Aleichem

#29. Pound it out, get it done, write every day. No excuses. Kerouac said you can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. Damn straight. You'll sleep a lot better getting your word count in than another quick Twitter check or keeping up to date on the Kardashians.

Dan Alatorre

#30. Always be willing to step out of the crowd to make a new friend. - Jeannie Fields-Dotson

Gary Chapman

#31. As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

John O. Brennan

#32. Once we become aware of our issues and challenges, we become accountable to do something about it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#33. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

Daniel Webster

#34. She walks to a table
She walk to table
She is walking to a table
She walk to table now
What difference does it make
What difference it make
In Nature, no completeness
No sentence really complete thought
Language, like woman,
Look best when free, undressed.

Wang Ping

#35. I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

Mindy Kaling

#36. I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter.

Charlotte Bronte