Life Altering Quotes - Page 2

• I think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and you think about their future, but when you get to a time when you are diagnosed with any kind of life altering illness, what did you take away from it? And what I took away from it was how to live in the "now".

  Lorna Luft

  Kids, Thinking, Twenties

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I got divorced, after having been married for almost eight years. That is a very life-altering experience. There's a period of time that you go through, where you're having to adjust to knowing yourself and knowing who you are from being a couple to being an individual again.

  Jenna Fischer

  Couple, Eight, Years

  "Jenna Fischer Talks A LITTLE HELP and THE OFFICE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2011.

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• In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

  Gregory Maguire

  Examination, Individual, Complication

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• Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 22, No. 6, November - December 1997.

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• Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself and in the world.

  Phyllis Curott

  Magic, World, Divinity

  Phyllis Curott (2001). “Witch Crafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic”, p.26, Harmony

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• Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  "Marianne Williamson: 10 Ways To Stay Spiritually Connected" By Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

  Brian Pinkerton

  People, Ordinary, Stories

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.

  Stephen K. Hayes

  Real, Piercings, Safe

  Stephen K. Hayes (1986). “Ninja Realms of Power: Spiritual Roots and Traditions of the Shadow Warrior”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Health, Decision, Sticks

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.92, Penguin

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• Over the years I’ve worked with countless women who have inspired me with their stories. Beyond makeup, we’ve talked about life-altering events. Everything from the joy of being a new mom to dealing with homelessness and divorce. With each conversation, these women have shown that when you have the will and the heart, almost anything is possible—and that’s what Pretty Powerful is all about.

  Bobbi Brown

  Mom, Powerful, Heart

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• Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Pain, Men, Gains

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

  Victor Garber

  Television, Levels, Series

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Blessing, May

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• Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  "Marianne Williamson: 10 Ways To Stay Spiritually Connected" By Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Rise Above, Well Known, Ability

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.51, Beacon Press

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• The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience.

  Judith McNaught

  Men, Two, Attractive

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• Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means. And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes. True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you. True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.

  Vera Nazarian

  Wise, Real, Mean

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• When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.

  Ruben Papian

  Spiritual, Yes You Can, Long

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• The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

  Ethan Hawke

  Successful, Intelligent, Unique

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

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• When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

  Ron Wyden

  Senior, Years, Income

  "Preserving the Medicare Guarantee: Why I’ve Been Working with Paul Ryan" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a strong impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance.

  Mark Sanford

  Strong, War, Home

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• We can't anticipate and provide for life's trials, but the Lord can and does. The Lord wants us to thirst not after a quick fix to our problems but after the life-altering refreshment of His provision.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Doe, Trials, Want

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• I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.

  Harlan Coben

  People, Soul, Live In The Moment

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• If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

  David Brooks

  Morning, Sunset, Average

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