Lifelong Quotes - Page 12

• My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.

  Martha Beck

  Honesty, Self, And Love

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• . . . learning never ends, and as we enter the next century, it will be more and more important for all Americans to be lifelong learners. . . . every one of us can contribute in some way to a better-educated America.

  Barbara Bush

  Learning, America, Important

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• The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

  Maya Angelou

  Justice, Diversity, Racism

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.57, Bantam

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• I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

  Larry King

  Ties, Years, People

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• If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Children, Mistake, Giving

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• Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

  Alanis Morissette

  Goal, Different, Path

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• When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Men, Paris

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• I have been curious about the mind and body for as long as I can remember. I was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, I took my first yoga class in 1980 and knew from the start that it would be a lifelong passion.

  Rodney Yee

  Philosophy, Yoga, Passion

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• How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning experience, because I could not accept what the party line was with education - that these people want to live like this, these people don't have ambition, they don't want to work. You know, all the usual bullshit.

  Lynne Stewart

  Party, Ambition, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

  J. I. Packer

  Attitude, Humility, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2014). “finishing our course with joy”, p.43, SPCK

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• The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Athlete, Science, Humanity

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• Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  Jim Stovall (2015). “The Ultimate Gift Series”, p.59, David C Cook

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• The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).

  John Owen

  Taken, Tree, Grace

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• I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.

  Ted Nugent

  Rocks, Views, Rock And Roll

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• Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Knowing, Giving

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• I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

  Michelle Obama

  Brother, Husband, Believe

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Devotion, Public Service

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• I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

  Mos Def

  Passion, Novelists, Language

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• When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

  Amy Chua

  Giving Up, Kids, Lessons

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Health, Opposites

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet

  Kyle Chandler

  Running, Hands, Years

  Interview with Kate Coyne, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 25, 2008.

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• I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ideas, Revelations, Grew Up

  "Understanding Deepak Chopra’s Vision Of Muhammad". Interview with Nicole Neroulias, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Needs, Currents

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• Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Pain, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers.

  James Patterson

  Children, Believe, Book

  Scholastic Book Fairs Interview, www.scholastic.com.

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