Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.
Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.
God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
What I put in the stock market, I dont have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.
If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.
"It doesn't matter how long it takes. " She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. "It's how long it lasts. "
I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash. . . you add a longer tail. . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.
Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match. . . If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
I know what I'm capable of wearing in one lifetime and what I really need.
[On deciding not to have children:] Yes, there is a little sadness. . . But there's also a little sadness around the fact I may never get to go to the moon. Jeez, you can't do everything in this lifetime.
In the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers - spiritual, social, scientific - we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next stage of our evolution.
Spread your hate. It'll last a lifetime.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
I grew up on the island, Trinidad to be exact, and I never thought it would be possible. These sort of things happen once in a lifetime. I just know God is bigger than me and everything I do is to serve and please Him.
And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.
