We Spend Half Our Lives Quotes

#1. We spend half of our lives preparing to live-instead of just living.

Leah Newman Fredrichs

#2. Cats have been all over the Internet for many years. This makes total sense, as they seem to spend half their lives trying to stand and sit on the keyboards of our laptops.

Tom Cox

#3. To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

Deepak Chopra

#4. We spend much of the first half of our lives trying to build internal models that fit the world and much of the last half of our lives trying to adjust the world so it fits the inner models.

Bruce Wexler

#5. Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many

Herb Caen

#6. People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.

J. Sterling

#7. We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.

Agatha Christie

#9. The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.

Jonathan Gottschall

#10. They spend half they lives worrying about what white folks think.

Barack Obama

#11. If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends.
-Luke Skywalker

James Luceno

#12. I really think people are so silly. They spend half of their lives' searching for the beauty of the world when the beauty is within them. The world doesn't make you beautiful, you do.

Coco Nicole Estef

#13. This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?

Rajneesh

#14. Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

Koren Zailckas

#15. Two business women can 'make a home' together without either one being over-burdened or over-bored. It is because they both know how and both feel responsible. But it is a rare man who can marry one of them and continue the home-making partnership.

Crystal Eastman

#16. Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

Jean De La Bruyere

#17. I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against our daughters.

Lois Wyse

#18. Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Samuel Johnson

#19. This place where half of us will typically spend a year or more of our lives was never truly made for us.

Atul Gawande

#20. Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Reese Witherspoon

#21. One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

Matthew Hayden

#22. We talkin' bout practice?

Allen Iverson

#23. I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#24. Is that why the parents of dead children spend half the rest of their lives in darkened rooms? Are they hoping the ghosts will return with all their original power? She

Martin Amis

#25. If you're not free to love, your're not free at all.

Jessica Khoury