Full Life Quotes - Page 2

• I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

  Jack Canfield

  Believe, People, Settling

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• She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Grandmother, Done, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.

  Jeremiah Denton

  Government, Next Day, Trying

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• The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life, you need to follow where it leads...in defiance of all things conventional perhaps. And of course it has its price. You have to know that going in. But the price you pay, in my opinion, is not worth the time of day to think about. It is so important not to knee pad around the world. You should never bow down to anything but those you love and respect. Ever for anything.

  Doug Peacock

  Passion, Thinking, Important

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• Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

  Peter Block

  Children, Teaching, Learning

  Peter Block (2002). “The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Baffled, Defeated

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Giving Up, Regret

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• Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Light, Richness Of Life, Imperfection

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.

  Bonnie Raitt

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• It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Home, Careers

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• One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Metaphor, Capacity

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• You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.

  Bono

  Song, Cutting, Loss

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• The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

  Virginia Satir

  Feelings, Defense, Faces

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• ...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Book, Adventure, Winter

  D. E. Stevenson (1978). “Listening Valley”

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• Maybe "having enough" has a second meaning beyond the basic economic security a family needs. Maybe it means accepting that a rich full life with a job and family will be rewarding, but it certainly won't be perfect. As many of us who have combined kids and careers know all too well, some days it's really pretty messy. And that's OK.

  Willow Bay

  Jobs, Kids, Mean

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

  Sarah McLachlan

  New Relationship, Kids, Two

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• Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.

  Charlotte Mason

  Learning, Thinking, Numbers

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

  Elias Zerhouni

  Graduation, Dream, Simple

  Elias Zerhouni's Commencement Address at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.mit.edu. June 4, 2004.

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• We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Long, Empowering

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• Eight full lives,” I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. “Eight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? You're not of my species. How can you be my partner?” “It's a strange universe,” he murmured. “It's not fair,” I complained, echoing Sunny's words. It wasn't fair. How could I find this, find love–now, in this eleventh hour–and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldn't reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eight, Soul And Body, Voice

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• There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Cutting, Expression, Soul

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.209, Penguin

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• Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus' way? WHy else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks?

  Ann Voskamp

  Crush, Jesus, Powerful

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• We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wise, Writing, Heart

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Stars, Years, People

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