Life Changing Quotes - Page 30

• When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

  Shel Silverstein

  Life, Light, Blue

  "A Light in the Attic". Book by Shel Silverstein, 1981.

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• Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Ocean, Simple

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• Times will change for the better when you change.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Work, Character

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• Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Change, Glasses

  "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger, (Ch. 16), 1951.

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• If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Teaching, Issues

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.210, Penguin

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• And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Fighting, Littles

  Jeffery Deaver (1997). “The Bone Collector”, Viking Press

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• Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Imagination, Inspire, Library

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• Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Thinking, Agony

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• If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

  Simon Pegg

  Fate, Important, Encounters

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• I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but it made sense at the time.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Believe, Animal, Sheep

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.296, Harlequin

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• At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Christmas, Sweet, Believe

  Chris Van Allsburg (1985). “The Polar Express”

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• There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.

  Emma Watson

  Fashion, Perfect, Interesting

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jul 24, 2012

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• Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

  Robert Fulghum

  Live Life, Way, Left

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• A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

  Andrew Murray

  Jesus, Easter, Christ On The Cross

  Andrew Murray (2013). “Jesus Himself”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

  David Nicholls

  Art, Hard Work, Passion

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• One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head, or sway of her hips. You will dream of her, whether you are asleep of awake. She will possess your mind, and your body will be on fire for her. Nothing will ever erase the linger of her scent in your nostrils, the touch of her hand on your body, the feel of her flesh beneath your fingers. When you find a woman to love, Cnut, your life changes forever.

  Helen Hollick

  Dream, Eye, Fire

  Helen Hollick (2004). “A Hollow Crown: The Story of Emma, Queen of Saxon England”, William Heinemann

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• Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

  Alyson Noel

  Art, Three, Safe

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• ...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanks, Asks

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.61, Zondervan

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• Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you're maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there's that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it's like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it's rather tedious to fill in the branches.

  Alan Rickman

  Teacher, Children, Blue

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• All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

  Mo Willems

  Ideas, Library, Useless

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• The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Giving, Wanted

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition): From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.209, Vintage

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• I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Ideas, Decision, Risk

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• Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Grateful, Nails

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.57, Zondervan

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• The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Breathing, Evil, Worry

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.244, Thomas Nelson

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