Top 100 Quotes About Lifetimes
#1. The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.
Brooke Burgess
#2. He had lost her. And she would never, in a thousand lifetimes, let him in again.
Sarah J. Maas
#3. If there was one advantage of the numerous lifetimes he'd been forced to endure, it was undoubtedly knowledge.
Ross Turner
#4. You're the kind of experience most people wait lifetimes for.
Anonymous
#6. A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.
Wes "Scoop" Nisker
#7. Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.
Dennis Sharpe
#8. Reincarnation is not necessarily linear. Sometimes people actually become more immersed in darkness or illusion than they were in previous lifetimes.
Frederick Lenz
#9. All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.
Jay Parini
#10. Lainey is hot in a prom queen kind of way and we used to be friends back in grade school, but that was two lifetimes ago. Now she's a varsity soccer player and card-carrying popular girl who hangs out with the kind of mean girls and douchebags who get killed first in horror movies.
Paula Stokes
#11. The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. We live so many lifetimes in one lifetime.
The most precious form of life is the child. Second is the cacao plant.
All I can do is do all I can.
Robyn Engel
#13. I live entire lifetimes in my head. Sometimes simultaneously.
Cypher Lx
#14. We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.
William J. Brennan
#15. We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.
Shirley Maclaine
#16. A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!
Dada Bhagwan
#17. Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.
Seneca.
#18. I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.
Nostradamus
#19. If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?
Ransom Riggs
#20. At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
Shia Labeouf
#21. The seeming paradoxes of beauty and truth collide and individuality emerges from the debris. We spend our lifetimes dusting it down.
Martin Cosgrove
#22. If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.
Rolf Dobelli
#23. They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
Ellen Hopkins
#25. You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.
Suzanne Collins
#26. Okay, Dom. I think you've admired yourself enough for a few lifetimes," Samuel laughed. "I mean, who could ever get tired of looking at these gorgeous guns?" Dom asked. "Me," Malachi, Danyel, and Samuel all said in unison.
Cameo Renae
#27. I ask no comfort," Taran replied, "but the truth, be it harsh or happy."
"Ah, my sweet robin," said Orddu, "for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours.
Lloyd Alexander
#28. We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
Christopher Hitchens
#29. During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.
Winston S. Churchill
#30. Pain immobilizes people. Pain locks them in place so they spend hours, days, and lifetimes held captive.
Christopher Greyson
#31. Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
Jessica Lange
#32. Because the part of me that remembers what it was like all those lifetimes ago still cares for you .. loves you.
Stacey Jay
#33. I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes
Tenzin Palmo
#34. Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.
Nicholas Sparks
#35. I would lose him a thousand lifetimes over if it meant I got the chance to love him a thousand times. And have him love me back.
If only for a little while.
A.J. Compton
#36. An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
G. Willow Wilson
#37. Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.
Steve Israel
#38. I didn't want to die, ever. I wanted to watch a million suns set, love a million women, walk down a million city streets and lonely roads. A thousand lifetimes wouldn't be enough for that. Sometimes, convinced I had come down with some fatal illness, I was afraid I wouldn't even have one.
Hillel Halkin
#39. His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job
your sacred contract
to free him, and to free yourself.
Elizabeth Lesser
#40. The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
Bob Riley
#41. The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared moments.
Mackenzi Lee
#42. Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in the hippocampus that ultimately differentiate into fully functional neurons.
David Perlmutter
#43. What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
Roger Ebert
#44. Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.
Don Aitkin
#45. My spirit has been around far longer than my soul
I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.
Terry A. O'Neal
#46. There's more than enough in the world I am currently writing about to last for several lifetimes of writing.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#47. If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an individual is for many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes.
Frederick Lenz
#48. But she did believe that the fundamentals of most people remained the same throughout their lifetimes. People who were generous usually remained generous, unless life taught them not to be. And people who saw the world through the prism of their own needs first and foremost would always be that way.
Sarah Mayberry
#49. There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?
Eve Ensler
#50. I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.
Eric Morecambe
#51. In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
Gao Xingjian
#53. The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.
Peggy Noonan
#54. And though you study medicine for a score of lifetimes, there will come to you people whose illnesses are mysteries, for the anguish of which you speak is part and parcel of the profession of healing and must be lived with.
Noah Gordon
#55. How beautiful it is that I need more lifetimes than this to say "I love you.
Meredith Marple
#56. Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.
Douglas Coupland
#57. You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.
Tom Dreesen
#58. Imagine the people you fear and dislike as pivotal characters in a fascinating and ultimately redemptive plot that will take years or even lifetimes for the Divine to elaborate.
Rob Brezsny
#59. Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
Barbra Streisand
#60. With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.
Brittany Murphy
#61. I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be in a soap. Working with Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden - they're legends in their own lifetimes aren't they?
Sophie Thompson
#62. I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell for days and weeks and what felt like lifetime across lifetimes. I fell until I forgot I was falling.
Jess Rothenberg
#63. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
Suzanne Collins
#64. It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.
Laini Taylor
#65. There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie
Mark Sanborn
#66. Somehow I escaped punishment in that life, and so now, lifetimes later, a very special kind of hell is being rained down on me, the full rage of karmic justice.
Lisa Unger
#67. There are the samskaras, the tendencies from your other lifetimes, ways of seeing, habits that are so strong, they affect you now. They are the operative situations in your life that are created by karma.
Frederick Lenz
#68. Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.
Frederick Lenz
#69. One who practices jnana yoga has practiced the other yogas for many, many lifetimes.
Frederick Lenz
#70. These men suffered enough for a hundred lifetimes, and no one in this country should be allowed to forget it.
Hampton Sides
#71. And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
Jerry Garcia
#72. In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.
Michel De Montaigne
#73. When a chance for real happiness comes by, grab it with both hands and devour it. If it lasts five minutes or five lifetimes, it's still worth it.
Malorie Blackman
#74. There's a Chinese principle called yuanfen, which means your fate with someone else [...] Two people with strong yuanfen have a greater chance of meeting in their lifetimes, and can become as close as family.
Stacey Lee
#75. People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.
Silvia Hartmann
#76. People who are enlightened in previous lifetimes have a certain degree of difficulty in regaining their enlightenment. Sometimes it comes in childhood. Sometimes it takes many years to reintegrate the personality structure that they gained when they first entered into this world.
Frederick Lenz
#77. Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.
Frederick Lenz
#78. Record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song.
Michael Ondaatje
#79. Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?
Evelyn Lau
#80. Had it only been a year? It had seemed much longer. Sometimes it had seemed like a lifetime. But maybe all lifetimes weren't measured in hours, days, and years.
Josh Lanyon
#81. Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.
Frederick Lenz
#82. I could live a hundred lifetimes inside his kiss, and it would never be enough.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#83. Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.
Michael Scott
#84. Now, I don't think President Obama and Vice President Biden get the credit they deserve for saving us from the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes. Our economy is so much stronger than when they took office.
Hillary Clinton
#85. I just don't want to watch TV, and I know that life is short. I feel like I couldn't do all the things I wanted to do if I had several lifetimes to do them in.
Kyp Malone
#86. In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.
Frederick Lenz
#87. A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#88. You have more potential in you than you can possibly use up in an entire lifetime or even in several lifetimes. Stop making up excuses and believing in limits.
David Cameron Gikandi
#89. You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice.
Frederick Lenz
#90. I think what's so attractive about acting is that you get to live several lifetimes in one.
Brit Marling
#91. There are very few high-quality garments being produced at all. A very, very, very small amount. So small that most people never even see it in their lifetimes. People are wearing rags, basically.
Elizabeth Cline
#92. The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.
Frederick Lenz
#93. The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.
Steve Jurvetson
#94. I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.
Desmond Tutu
#95. You only find your Teacher once in many lifetimes. Never be afraid to see them and meditate with them. Your Teacher always understands and always forgives.
Frederick Lenz
#96. On a surface level, all one finds is repeated forms of shallow whispers. Having the courage to explore deeply, a wealth of buried infinite lifetimes emerge - an undeniable force.
T.F. Hodge
#97. In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.
Martin Seligman
#98. There will never be anyone like you, Morgan."
He closed his eyes for a moment.
"Never, not in a million years or a million lifetimes, will there be anyone else who has what I want.
Adrienne Wilder
#99. I knew why love was always described with eternity. A single minute stretched out for lifetimes.
Shannon A. Thompson
#100. Most people are lucky enough to have a few electrifying kissing experiences in their lifetimes, which make you believe in God, the reality of soul mates, or at least the power of sexual chemistry [Cram,Cusi, "'One Life to Live' and 14 Beautiful Boys to Kiss," Cafe, January 14, 2015].
Cusi Cram
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