“So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.” IfsLooksWould BeActionMovingOur LivesGrowingProgressMovementKeysEvolutionOppositesStuckDevelopingAccomplishmentStayingMatureExpandingClarifying Book:Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way Source: Big Mind, Big Heart: Finding Your Way
“The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.” PeopleYearsAgeUsedOur LivesHusbandOppositesMalesUsed To BeComes And GoesYour HusbandPeople In Our Lives Author:Wendy Wasserstein
“Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?” IfsWantMadeWantedOur LivesWasteOppositesStriveOur Time Book:No Man Is an Island Source: No Man Is an Island
“I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.” ThinkingWantedDesireMoralOur LivesOffersJokesOppositesDetailsConfusion Author:Kevin Brockmeier