Top 100 Quotes About The Second Life
#1. You will die a dozen deaths, boy, and every one will hurt ... but when your true death comes, you will live again. The second life is simpler and sweeter, they say.
George R R Martin
#2. The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace into your environment.
Gracia Hunter
#3. Live because you're dying. Tomorrow is no more guaranteed than the next hour. No minute is minuscule; every second is a new breath that fills the lungs with life.
Bron Dayvid
#4. The second most powerful man in the country." All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking "nothing jobs" and making them into something - something big. And now, no sooner
Robert A. Caro
#5. How many Christians live for appearances? Their life seems like a soap bubble. The soap bubble is beautiful, with all its colours! But it lasts only a second, and then what?
Pope Francis
#6. Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
Richard Rohr
#7. We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.
Lauren DeStefano
#8. There are two word in my world first love the strongest and second chance quotes.
Rohit Dhariwal
#9. For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.
Richard J. Needham
#10. I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.
Tim Ward
#11. The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.
Deborah Cox
#12. One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.
Laurie Colwin
#13. Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.
Clare Mulley
#14. It's like, the second I saw him, my life stated.
Mia Sheridan
#15. First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
Oksana Baiul
#16. Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
Eric Liddell
#17. If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.
Michael Novak
#18. The person your child becomes is a product of two things. The first is his life experience. The second is how he interacts with that experience.
Tedd Tripp
#19. For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die.
Claire North
#20. This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices.
Jeaniene Frost
#21. The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay-Z
#22. Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
Anne Roiphe
#23. When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?
Aubrey O'Day
#25. How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'
Ali Smith
#26. One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain ... my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay ... she missed out on all that ... like me, her son ... a lifetime of sacrifice! ... the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#27. I try to keep my life as private as I can, but I definitely don't do what I do for the attention because if I knew coming into that I would have all those people outside my house, I might have given myself a second thought.
Miley Cyrus
#28. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]
Stephen Hawking
#29. Because I've learned that you can't control what other people are going to think about you. The best you can do in life is not piss yourself off.
Megan McCafferty
#30. For the first half of your life each minute feels like a year, but for the second half, each year feels like a minute.
Melanie Gideon
#31. A good book is always better the second time around.
M.T. Acquaire
#32. We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.
Patty Andrews
#33. I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor Robert Duvall: "I exist very nicely between the words 'action' and 'cut.'"
And even a third way: "It doesn't present as pain," I once heard an oncological surgeon say of cancer.
Joan Didion
#34. I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.
Joya Ryan
#35. Ain't it shame how folk see time like money in the bank when it's more like a loan that might jus' fall due any second?
Patrick Neate
#36. Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering.
Dean Koontz
#37. My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.
Mary Gordon
#38. All the wealth in this sinful world, cannot buy one second of life in God's Paradise.
Felix Wantang
#39. When I'm with a man, my work takes second place - all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.
Linda Evans
#40. I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small rude incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff for the rest of my life.
Tim Kreider
#41. In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us.
Richard Rohr
#42. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
Steve Goodier
#43. Life is a Game you play only once you don't get the second chance and if you get you will never come in the same identity. So perform well.
Sandeep Kakkar
#44. She closed her eyes and let the rain fall on her face,
and after another second, I could not have said what were raindrops, and what tears.
Sarah Waters
#45. The second time, I had a freakin' vampire at my back." I froze. Oh shit. "No offense, Mr. Moreau," I quickly added.
"None taken, Agent Fraser. During the course of my lengthy life, I have been called many things, but 'freakin' has never been one of them. I'll consider it a novelty.
Lisa Shearin
#46. Our families were herded out of the room, and I snuggled little Ainsley closer, smelling her head, a smell I already recognized. I'd cheerfully kill for her, happily lay down my life for her without a second's hesitation and with a smile on my face. My beautiful baby. My gift.
Kristan Higgins
#47. For 15 years of my life I smoked, I drank, I used to do drugs ... but during that time, I never once thought I was going to die. But the second I set foot on a stairmaster -the second- I am sure my heart is gonna explode and blood is gonna spray out of my nose.
Marc Maron
#48. But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.
Lauren Bacall
#49. Spend your money for education; it will pay you the best dividend. No one will be able to steal is and you will not lose it for a second.
Debasish Mridha
#50. You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
Isabel Allende
#51. Growing up means realizing that no time of one's life is the best one, and resolving to savor every second of joy within reach. You know each will pass, and you no longer experience that as betrayal.
Susan Neiman
#52. Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.
Billy Graham
#53. Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
Seth Lloyd
#54. You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first ...
Evelyn Waugh
#55. The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs.
(on being 36 yrs old)
C. G. Jung
#56. Being one of the angels is one of the few jobs that can totally change someone's life. For example, clients and designers who would have never given you a second look, now sit up and take notice.
Candice Swanepoel
#57. These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#58. I look around, pretty much 100% of the people driving are texting. And they're killing, everybody's murdering each other with their cars. But people are willing to risk taking a life and ruining their own because they don't want to be alone for a second because it's so hard.
Louis C.K.
#59. People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."
Tony Robbins
#60. To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago's second city of garages was my young life's passion.
Lynn Margulis
#61. America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
Dick Gregory
#62. There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.
Maria Montessori
#63. The second is the Word of God used in the life to affect all its parts (notice that soul, spirit, body, and heart are all mentioned in Heb. 4:12).
Charles C. Ryrie
#64. Prayer is not supposed to be all we do - it's just supposed to undergird all we do. Prayer is not supposed to be just the first thing we do, but the first, second, fourth, seventh, and final thing we do in each circumstance.
Leslie Ludy
#65. You mean magic is predicated on hope?"
"Hope," [Antryg] said, "and belief in life. We move blindly from second to second through time. Hope and magic both involve the casting forward of the soul. In a way, both magic and hope are a kind of madness.
Barbara Hambly
#66. I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.
Philipp Meyer
#67. We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.
Norbert Wiener
#68. To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
Peter Stormare
#69. I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.
Frances Lear
#70. Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
Russell Baker
#71. In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.
Mitch Albom
#72. The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'
Carol Tavris
#73. Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.
Saint Augustine
#74. Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.
Richard Rohr
#75. There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
Rudolf Bing
#76. What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.
Holley Gerth
#77. Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#78. Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#79. The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
Pablo Picasso
#80. Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed by the breathless adult observation that no two of these were exactly alike. In the first place, she had thought, how does anybody know that? And in the second place, so what?
Jincy Willett
#81. Most people who bother to think about plants at all tend to regard them as the mute, immobile furniture of our world - useful enough, and generally attractive, but obviously second-class citizens in the republic of life on Earth.
Stefano Mancuso
#82. The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark under the oaks, hands at my sides, and watch and wait.
Walker Percy
#83. Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
Tony Curtis
#84. Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man".
Russell Beland
#85. In the second training, we develop energy, concentration, and mindfulness. These are the meditative and life tools that enable us to awaken. Without them we simply act out the patterns of our conditioning.
Joseph Goldstein
#87. Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri
#88. One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
Henry Adams
#89. Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.
John Lennon
#90. Sometimes doubting your first thought, will cost you more for going with your second thought.
Pontius Joseph
#91. Always ask the questions you want to, life is too short to know if you'll get a second chance to ask , and afterlife is probably too long to wonder what the answer may be.
Kaitlin Hollon
#92. If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.
Stephenie Meyer
#93. First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.
Allan Houston
#94. The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.
Billy Graham
#95. I'll never second guess the things that I have done. I've got too much left to say and too much to become.
Alex Gaskarth
#96. I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.
Winston Graham
#97. The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.
Carl Jung
#98. We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.
Tom Hiddleston
#99. All my life I knew I would have a big business. That's what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.
Paul Orfalea
#100. A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting. It would be criminal not to read this book.
Linda Fairstein
