Lifetime Quotes - Page 37

• I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

  Marilyn Manson

  Differences, Making A Difference, Bills

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• Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Fashion, Kindness, Heart

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• Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

  Daniel Pennac

  Reading, Loving Life, Increase

  "Why I’ll Read 20 Books Before Bedtime" by Rachael Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2014.

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• To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

  Patricia Briggs

  Women, Giving, Demand

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• Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.

  Anne Lamott

  Stuff, Sometimes, Walks

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• The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Privilege, Introvert

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• It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating--I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness, that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret. This I know.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Beautiful, Regret, Passion

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Differences, Space

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Change of Heart: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Night, Color

  Stephen King (2009). “Nightmares & Dreamscapes”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loss, Dark, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Sweet, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

  Jodi Picoult

  Missing, Care, Lost

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Years, Two

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let's not try to be witty, but record the worst of human viciousness we've seen without changing one word. When that's done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That's work enough for a lifetime.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Witty, Lying, Hands

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Heart, Waiting, Soul

  "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  Mary Balogh

  Dream, Disappointment, Successful

  Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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• …she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Summer, Sunset, Long Ago

  Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.225, Macmillan

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• We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Lost Love, Taken

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 24, 2011

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• Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

  David Baldacci

  Mistake, Gone, Reputation

  David Baldacci (2009). “The Simple Truth”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Teacher, Betrayal, Men

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• I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Coward, Looks, Done

  Ray Bradbury (1951). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

  Arundhati Roy

  House, Events, Ordinary

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.32, Penguin Books India

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• I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Running, Loving Life, America

  David Wojnarowicz (1990). “David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame”, University Galleries

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• It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

  Robert James Waller

  Moving, Ignorance, Years

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