Lifetime Quotes - Page 39

• But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Healing, Past

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• For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?

  Richard Ford

  Air, Lasts, Moments

  Richard Ford (2006). “Independence Day”, p.352, A&C Black

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• One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Once In A Lifetime, One Love, Ifs

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• I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

  Jodi Picoult

  Loving Life, People, Choices

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered.

  Isabel Allende

  Dream, Humility, Infinity

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• Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Stars, Thinking

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

  Anne Sexton

  Sun, Built

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.

  Mother Angelica

  Men, Names, Degrees

  "Mother Angelica Live". Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1983 - ).

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• Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

  Annie Barrows

  Mind, Be Kind, Cry

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.133, Dial Press

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• Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Couple

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• We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Long, Parent, Age

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• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Wall, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Dec 20, 2010

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• When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course, he saw that her self-effacing proposal was quite irrelevant. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. Love and patience- if only he had had them both at once- would surely have seen them both through.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Self, His Love

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• You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. "But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there," he said, nodding toward the lake and beyond.' ~Dr. Hyde, pg 50

  John Green

  Buddhist, Class, Lakes

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.54, Penguin

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• You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experiences.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Memories

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• Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.

  A. E. Housman

  Guests, Life Is, Good Things

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• Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

  Tennessee Williams

  Sweet, Regret, Long

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

  Rick Warren

  Obedience, Teach, Instant

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.64, Zondervan

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• A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

  Henry Adams

  Years, Two, Bird

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.480, The Floating Press

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• Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Graves, Folks

  "Fools for love" by Bell Hooks, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2000.

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• It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Laughter, Giving Up

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.68, Macmillan

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• In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mistake, Two, Happened

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• . . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

  John Connolly

  Dream, Eye, Men

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

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• But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

  Mary Karr

  Thinking, Voice, Listening

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