Life Changing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
-- Aaron Swartz -
It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.
-- Adrien Brody -
Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…
-- Alan Rickman -
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
-- Albert Camus -
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.
-- Ali Vincent -
It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
-- Alyson Noel -
I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
-- Anatole France -
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
-- Anatole France -
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
-- Andrew Murray -
Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.
-- Andy Stanley -
My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall,
-- Angela Merkel -
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
-- Anne Frank -
Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.
-- Anthony Venn-Brown -
My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.
-- Anton Corbijn -
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
-- Aristotle -
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
-- Ayn Rand -
Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
-- Ayn Rand -
...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.
-- Bell Hooks -
People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.
-- Ben Vereen -
I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
-- Berenice Bejo -
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
-- Bernard Stiegler -
Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
-- Bill Crawford -
When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
-- Bill Hybels -
Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
-- Bill Hybels -
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
-- Bill Walton -
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
-- Billy Connolly -
Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.
-- Bow Wow -
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining,
-- Brenda Ueland -
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes - in writing or in life - and do not fret about them but pass on and write more.
-- Brenda Ueland -
Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.
-- Brian Chesky -
The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself
-- Brian Tracy -
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.
-- Brooke Burns -
If people are not sharing their faith in your church, if they're not having a quiet time, if they're not living godly lives, then you need to change your style of preaching. You are obviously not seeing lives changed through the Word of God. So what is the problem? The problem isn't the Word. The problem is your preaching style.
-- Bruce Wilkinson -
If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.
-- Bryan Clay -
Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.
-- Burgess Meredith -
Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.
-- Byron Katie -
The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.
-- Carole Radziwill -
If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?
-- Celia Thaxter -
My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions of them. After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.
-- Cheri Huber -
Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.
-- Chris Cavanaugh -
At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.
-- Christian D. Larson -
Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.
-- Christian Louboutin -
natural birth is full of magnificent, life-changing wisdom.
-- Christiane Northrup -
I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.
-- Christofer Drew -
As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
-- Christopher Atkins -
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
-- Christopher Heyerdahl -
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
-- Coco Chanel -
It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")
-- Cornell Woolrich -
Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.
-- Craig Groeschel -
If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.
-- Cyndi Lauper -
We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important things is to be a good human being.
-- Dalai Lama -
It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.
-- Dan Ariely -
There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.
-- David Bowick -
The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
-- David Thewlis -
Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives.
-- Dawson Trotman -
God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.
-- Dawson Trotman -
Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives. A stranger appears and speaks a few words of wisdom, solving a previously insoluble problem, or something in a recent dream transpires in reality. Suddenly the existence of God seems confirmed.
-- Dean Koontz -
While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.
-- Debbie Macomber -
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
-- Debi Thomas -
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
-- Delta Goodrem -
It's a complete life change when you really want to better yourself and completely change the patterns that you have had in the past. Do I think I still need work? I think everyone needs work. I just keep working on myself.
-- Demi Lovato -
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
-- Diana Vreeland -
Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
-- Diane Ackerman -
After death something new begins, over which all powers of the world of death have no more might.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.
-- Douglas Booth -
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though.
-- Drake -
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.
-- Drew Barrymore -
My life changed in a huge way. Mentally, I've been preparing for it for over a year now. To me, it's bigger than that. For me, it shows a lot of people that you need to fight to be in your kids' lives sometimes. You fight until you can't fight any more. That's all I was trying to be, a father in his kids' lives.
-- Dwyane Wade -
Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
-- E. B. White -
You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.
-- Edith Hamilton -
The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life without a dream?
-- Edmond Rostand -
And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!
-- Elaine Stritch -
The best kind of travel – the kind I wanted to experience – involves a particular state of mind, in which one is not merely open to the occurrence of the unexpected, but to deep involvement in the unexpected, indeed, open to the possibility of having one’s life changed forever by a chance encounter.
-- Elisabeth Eaves -
There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.
-- Emma Watson -
When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.
-- Eric Thomas -
Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
-- Eugene H. Peterson
