I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”
“I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.”
“I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.”
Source: Wintergirls
“I am learning more and more each day how to not have situational self-esteem, in which the events of the day do not facilitate whether I am happy or not.”
Source: Oware Mosaic
“I am learning now, i have heard the man's ability to read the faces are written more than books.”
“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”
Source: Ariel
“I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”
Source: Every Day
“I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.”
“I am learning that bullies cannot break me—because their words are empty, because I matter. I am loved. I am supported. I love myself too much for someone to tear me down.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.”
Source: Liv Ullmann: Interviews
“I am learning that it is important to stop sometimes, and just have a drink and a gossip with friends, even as corpses start to pile up around you. Which they have been doing a lot recently.
It's a balancing act, of course, but, by and large, the corpses will still be there in the morning, and you mustn't let it spoil your Domino's.”
Source: The Man Who Died Twice
“I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.”
Source: Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide
“i am learning that when love wants to stay it will stay.
i am learning that when love wants to go it will go.”
“I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me”
“I am learning the pathways of the heart, Eleanor thought quite seriously, and then wondered what she could have meant by thinking any such thing.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“I am learning to accept everything about myself,
even the part of me that struggles to accept everything about myself.”
“I am learning to appreciate the gift of the moment.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.”
“I am learning to fly and live my life.”
“I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.”
“I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.”
“I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need.”
“I am learning to live beyond fear by living through it. And in the process, learning to turn fury and my own limitations into some more creative energy.”
Source: The Cancer Journals
“I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.”
Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.”
“I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.”
“I am learning to say no to my family. I am learning to say no to my friends. I am learning to say no to my work. Setting boundaries is a good thing.”
“I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.”
Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
“I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.”
“I am learning to “sit” with problems and own them instead of trying to bypass them. I am learning to empathize with people instead of trying to find a quick solution to their issues.”
Source: The Tea Shop
“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.”
“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled”
“I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.”
Source: Jupiter's Travels
“I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.”
“I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess
“I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.”
Source: The writings of a savage
“I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That is your strain. You precisely love him as he is, you love him insulting you. If he reformed, you would drop him at once and stop loving him altogether. But you need him in order to continually contemplate your high deed of faithfulness, and to reproach him for his unfaithfulness. And it all comes from your pride. Oh, there is much humility and humiliation in it, but all of it comes from pride.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“I am leaving the office but am not leaving the battle for peace.”
“I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.”
“I am leaving this legacy to all of you...to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace.”
“I am leaving.
Where?
Not where but whom.
Whom?
You.”
Source: You By You
“I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.”
Source: Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: With Statistical Tables and Remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and Other Gentlemen, on the Economy and Management of Farms in the United States
“I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.”
Source: Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992
“I am Lee Oswald.”
Source: View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale
“I am leery of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident ultimately have their way in our lives. But the point is that we are not helpless either. Courage is the strength to recognize both realities. We have room to act, to shape our stories, though as time goes on it is within narrower and narrower confines. A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one’s story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone’s lives.”
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“I am left alone on the surface
of a turning planet.”
“I am Left Wing. I am a Humanist.”
“I am left with no alternative than to look beyond the efforts of men, for efforts of those sort leave cities flattened, nations teetering, and lives crushed. Instead, I must shift the whole of my gaze to the God who tenderly kneels in the midst of this unimaginable carnage and effortlessly makes the healing imaginable.”
“I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of the incredible brain-mind relationship... I have to believe all this had an intelligent beginning.”