Stages Of Life Quotes - Page 2

• Im constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, Well, this is bloody weird, you can get through everything.

  Dawn French

  Long, Different, Amazing Woman

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• Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

  Betty Friedan

  Opportunity, Bad Ass, Lost Youth

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Grateful, Stage

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• Yes, pain, disappointment, frustration, and anguish can be temporary scenes played out on the stage of life. Behind them can be a background of peace and the positive assurance that a loving Father will keep His promises.

  Richard G. Scott

  Peace, Pain, Disappointment

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• Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

  Lorrie Moore

  Philosophy, Eight, Stupidity

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011

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• Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

  Nat Hentoff

  Pro Life, Different, Fetus

  Source: www.humanlifereview.com

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

  George Santayana

  Change, Children, Persistence

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.172, MIT Press

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• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Book, Self, Oneness

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• Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Play, Roles

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Change, Wisdom, Memories

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 12 (1905)

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• Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

  Robert Breault

  Death, Lasts, Kind

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Retirement, Impact, Careers

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• As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you're in, when you want something - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

  Brad Meltzer

  Daughter, Believe, Fighting

  "Brad Meltzer Talks About His New Heroes For My Daughter". Interview with Rebecca Gruber, www.popsugar.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

  Robert Breault

  Journey, Feet, Parent

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• We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Years, Stage, Despite

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• I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Agony, Different

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think it is a good thing to have woman friends at every stage of life. We confide in each other, we support each other, we understand each other most of the time. Of course, sometimes we are competitive or angry or distant, too. But I do think it is important not to let the main friendships slip away in the sweep of the days.

  Anne Roiphe

  Thinking, Support, Important

  "Friendship by the Book: An Interview with Anne Roiphe". Interview with Irene S. Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

  Michael Gurian

  Children, Home, Two

  Michael Gurian (2010). “The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• My kids only come around once in my lifetime, and they (hopefully) won't be with me forever. I chose to have them, and I choose, freely, to make them and my family a priority in my life. This stage of life won't last forever. While it does, I've climbed on for the ride.

  David Albert

  Kids, Priorities, Forever

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• We kind of deny the stages of life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kind, Deny, Stage

  "Damned if You Do: Chuck Palahniuk on His New Novel". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

  Eliza Haywood

  Giving, Admiration, Charm

  Eliza Haywood (1999). “Selections from The Female Spectator”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Social Studies "Tips for Teens" (1981)

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• Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  Mark Twain

  Political, Principles, Literature

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

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