A Quotes
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“A life without music. A life without reading the books she had loved.
But also: a life where she got on with her brother. A life where she hadn't had to let him down.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“A life without music is an error.”
“A life without orgasms is like a world without flowers.”
“A life without passion is a slow freeze to death my dear Peter and you were never the cryogenic type.”
“A life without passion is like a fish without a bicycle in a parallel universe where fish ride bicycles.”
“A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing”
“A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.”
“A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!”
“A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.”
“A life without rain is like the sun without shade.”
Source: After the Rain
“A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.”
“A life without sickness is a life without wellness.”
“A life without some faculties is always full of difficulties.”
“A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?”
“A life without struggle or failure is like a sky without stars—empty of the brilliance that shapes our essence.”
Source: International Human Rights Art Movement Literary Magazine: 2023 Collected Works
“A life without sweets is not much worth living.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“A life without the self-ignorance, ego, and immaturity is the divine life, to reach the Supreme Power.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“A life without tragedy would not be worth living.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A life without trust is a life without belief.”
“A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“A life worth living is a life worth recording.”
“A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.”
“A life's record with God in the details can be a spiritual feast for our souls. When we count our blessings on paper, our gratitude soars. It is all so evident.”
“A life's work should be based on love.”
“A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.”
“A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.”
“A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.”
“A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.”
Source: Collected Works: Do what you will
“A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.”
Source: Collected Works
“A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.”
“A lifemate. After all these centuries, after never believing. Why in the world would he be chosen for such a thing? Out of all the Carpathian males he knew, men who religiously followed the rules, why would he find a lifemate? He was practically an outlaw.”
Source: Dark Challenge
“A lifemate, no matter age or appearance, is always the most beautiful woman possible to a Carpathian male.”
Source: Dark Illusion
“A lifespan, a split second
That changes everything
Carry each other
The poet says, this matters
More than anything”
“A lifespan of a leaf is equal to the seasons. And its purpose though small, contributes to the bigger picture. Being who you are—even if you are a leaf—is no ordinary thing.”
Source: The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end
“A lifestyle change begins with a vision and a single step.”
Source: Jeff Galloway: Your Personal Running Journal: Logging Your Progress, Keeping Your Motivation
“A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.”
“A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.”
“A lifestyle of love makes reigning sweet and the best”
“A lifestyle of prayer attracts a series of victories. Pray if you want victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.”
“A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.”
Source: The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California
“A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.”
“A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.”
“A lifetime is a compilation of minutes. And you’ve got one right in front of you that has the power to correct the mess that you made of the one that just passed behind you.”
“A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.”
“A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.”
Source: I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education
“A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".”
Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
Source: The Miniaturist
“A lifetime isn't forever, so take the first chance, don't wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren't second chances! And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life! A whole bunch of mistakes! But if you never get a second chance at something you didn't take a first chance at? That's true failure.”