Whole Life Quotes - Page 14

• I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.

  Liz Kessler

  Real, Secret, Trying

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• Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

  Kami Garcia

  Thinking, Way, Persons

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• We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mean, Denial, Kind

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path. The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

  Paulo Coelho

  Kissing, Thinking, People

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• the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Heart, Eye

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• Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Book, Writing, Different

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• I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

  James Frey

  I Can, Whole

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.464, Anchor

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• Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

  Paullina Simons

  Sorrow, Ghost, Ecstasy

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• How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

  Michael Ondaatje

  Whole

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• You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

  Steig Larsson

  Teenager, Feelings, Time Left

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• The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.

  Frederick Buechner

  People, World, Facts

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

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• Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Self

  Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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• How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Mother, Fall, Thinking

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• The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

  Arnold Bennett

  Wise, Tea, May

  Arnold Bennett (2009). “How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Suffering, Relax

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

  Kami Garcia

  Whole

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• I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

  Mario Puzo

  Children, Men, Trying

  "Fictional character: Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Giving Up, Difficult, Horrible

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.282, Hachette UK

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• It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

  Kami Garcia

  People, Judging, Judge Me

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• My whole life has been one big broken promise.

  Sara Zarr

  Broken, Rejection, Promise

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.152, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Civilization, Giving, Spending

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3954, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Long, Looks, Tomorrow

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• The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.

  Steven Pressfield

  Believe, Artist, Effort

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• Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Dark, Two

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.242, Penguin

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• In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

  J.R. Ward

  Secret, Desire, Transition

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK

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