Two Lives Quotes

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  We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

  Tom Hiddleston

  Life, Two, Religion

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• As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Heart, Two, Long

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• He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Running, Two, People

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2943, Delphi Classics

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• We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Inspirational, Two, Given

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• If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Two, Scar

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 46

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• If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

  Jamie Bell

  Lying, Two, Way

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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• There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

  Glennon Melton

  Dream, Destiny, Two

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Two

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• This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

  Che Guevara

  Running, Dream, Mean

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

  William James

  Spiritual, Two, Natural

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.161, Booklassic

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• Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humility, Two, People

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• What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thinking, Two, People

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

  Arthur Machen

  Men, Two, Heaven

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

  Ruth Benedict

  Two, World, Gamer

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Two, Tragedy, Shame

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

  Greta Garbo

  Life, Movie, Two

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• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  Annalee Skarin

  Beautiful, Destiny, Men

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• We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”

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• A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

  Rex Reed

  Wise, Two, Vines

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• Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Believe, Emotional

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• In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

  Roberto Clemente

  Two, Pittsburgh, Way

  "Roberto Clemente Day at Three Rivers Stadium". pgdigs.tumblr.com. July 25, 1970.

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• When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Two, Mentor, Changed

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• We have two lives;
  The soul of man is like the rolling world,
  One half in day, the other dipt in night;
  The one has music and the flying cloud,
  The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

  Alexander Smith

  Life, Stars, Night

  ALEXANDER SMITH (1857). “CITY POEMS”, p.7

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• Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

  Rick Riordan

  Two, Firsts, Delight

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• If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

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