Two Lives Quotes

• If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

  Jamie Bell

  Lying, Two, Way

  "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.

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  We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one

  Tom Hiddleston

  Life, Two, Religion

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• As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Heart, Two, Long

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• We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Inspirational, Two, Given

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• He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Running, Two, People

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2943, Delphi Classics

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• There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

  Glennon Melton

  Dream, Destiny, Two

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2014). “Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

  Arthur Machen

  Men, Two, Heaven

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Two, Scar

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 46

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• This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.

  Che Guevara

  Running, Dream, Mean

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humility, Two, People

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• There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

  William James

  Spiritual, Two, Natural

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.161, Booklassic

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• If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Two

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• Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do with what I would like to do,' he thinks. Slowly, his dreams take over his everyday life, and then he realises that he is ready for the thing he always wanted. Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Warrior

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• We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Two, Soul, Mind

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• We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

  Bernard Malamud

  Live Life, Two, Suffering

  "The Natural: A Novel".

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• I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

  Greta Garbo

  Life, Movie, Two

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• Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Two, Littles

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• There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Heart, Men

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• At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Eye, Two

  'The Waste Land' (1922) pt. 3

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• What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thinking, Two, People

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

  Ruth Benedict

  Two, World, Gamer

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.3, Transaction Publishers

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• I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Two, Tragedy, Shame

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Should Have, Practice

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• I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.

  Lauren Myracle

  Girl, Atlanta, Two

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• I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

  Connie Kalitta

  Two, World, Lucky

  Source: blog.caranddriver.com

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