Two Lives Quotes - Page 3

• Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Two, Childhood

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• Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I will take not only your life for the Adderhead's but your daughter's, too, because she helped you bind the book. Do you undersand, Bluejay" Why two?" asked Mo hoarsely. "How can you ask for two lives in return for one?

  Cornelia Funke

  Daughter, Spring, Book

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• All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Twilight, Two, Dwelling

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• Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.

  Matsuo Basho

  Two, Cherry Blossom, Cherries

  Matsuo Basho (2006). “Narrow Road to the Interior”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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• A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

  Jane Smiley

  Reading, Writing, Two

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• And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you will miss the greatest mystery. And being against death also means that you will miss life itself - because they are deeply involved into each other; they are not two. Life is growing, death is the flowering of it. The journey and the goal are not separate; the journey ends in the goal.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Mean, Journey

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• Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

  Poul Anderson

  Destiny, Two, Bravery

  Poul Anderson (2015). “The Stars Are Also Fire”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already dead. It is also a crescendo of what we call life, although very few know what life is. They live, but they live in such ignorance that they never encounter their own life. And it is impossible for these people to know their own death, because death is the ultimate experience of this life, and the beginning experience of another. Death is the door between two lives; one is left behind, one is waiting ahead.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Ignorance, Two

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• The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Years, Two

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.17, Om Books International

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• Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Thinking, Two

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• If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

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• We have two lives;
  The soul of man is like the rolling world,
  One half in day, the other dipt in night;
  The one has music and the flying cloud,
  The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

  Alexander Smith

  Life, Stars, Night

  ALEXANDER SMITH (1857). “CITY POEMS”, p.7

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• Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)

  André Aciman

  Pain, Heart, Two

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.225, Macmillan

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• There are two life-forces in the world I know: Jewish and gentile, ours and yours...I do not believe that this primal difference between gentile and Jew is reconcilable. You and we may come to an understanding, never to a reconciliation. There will be irritation between us as long as we are in intimate contact. For nature and constitution and vision divide us from all of you forever.

  Maurice Samuel

  Believe, Irritation, Two

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• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fall, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Two, Mentor, Changed

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• I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Sex, Hate, Men

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• They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Two, Together

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2015). “Black Ice”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.

  Fred Rogers

  Love You, Two, Listening

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.23, Penguin

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• Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Passion, Men, Two

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• Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

  Martial

  Life, Past, Two

  Epigrams, X, 23, c. 80 - 104 AD.

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• Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Divorce, Two, Ships

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 504-05, A Lament, line 10, 1922.

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