Lifelong Quotes - Page 9

• Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

  Ben Bernanke

  Travel, Journey, Years

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• I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

  Anne Tyler

  Survival, Promise, Endurance

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.75, Random House

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• To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Being In Love, Goes On, Beloved

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• We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

  John Medina

  Jobs, Curiosity, Medina

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.133, Pear Press

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• Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Gratitude, Hard Work

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• Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.

  John Corey Whaley

  Children, Memories, Sibling

  John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• As a lifelong student of the world’s wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that “ridding the world of evil” is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha, or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by the Josephs Stalin and McCarthy and by Mao Tse Tung.

  David James Duncan

  Jesus, Evil, Goal

  "When Compassion Becomes Dissent". orionmagazine.org.

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• We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

  Price Pritchett

  Knowledge, School, Thinking

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• To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

  Kelly Gallagher

  Reading, Interesting, Reader

  Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.45, Stenhouse Publishers

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• Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Honesty, Book, School

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• Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Stars, Optimistic

  Barack Obama's Statment on the Passing of Leonard Nimoy, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 27, 2015.

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• Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Following Christ, Practice

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• My problem with the wedding industry started when I studied in college and liked to have the television on in the background, and 'A Wedding Story' on TLC always came on, and I'd get irritated that the story of two people making a lifelong commitment to each other could be encapsulated in a half-hour show about the party they throw.

  Jessica Valenti

  Party, Commitment, College

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• Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James

  Dream, Sibling, Life Lesson

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• You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

  Chris Fabry

  Fighting, Joy, Tenderness

  Chris Fabry, Gary D. Chapman (2011). “A Marriage Carol”, p.69, Moody Publishers

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• Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.

  Gary North

  Civilization, People, Hatred

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• My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Mother, Teacher, Reading

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• My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

  Bill Vaughan

  Country, Couple, Father

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• Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.

  Margaret Mead

  Love, Believe, People

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• Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

  Dada Vaswani

  Commitment, Permanent

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• I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited mentality or family tradition to become a paleontologist. I can locate no tradition for scientific or intellectual careers anywhere on either side of my eastern European Jewish background. I view my serious and lifelong commitment to baseball in entirely the same manner: purely as a contingent circumstance of numerous, albeit not entirely capricious, accidents.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Commitment, Views

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• The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

  Freeman Patterson

  Order, Creating, Challenges

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• The thing about being a lifelong gamer is that my eye-to-hand reaction time is faster than average. I actually went on a website that tests your reaction time and verified this to my satisfaction.

  Arthur Chu

  Eye, Average, Hands

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sex, Children, Camels

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• The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.

  Mimi Pond

  Party, Color, White

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