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Life Quotes by Emily Giffin
- I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones…
- A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or…
- Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I…
- A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.
- And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex…
- But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the…
- Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.…
- It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by…
- The worst thing about this particular end (of my youth) and the beginning (of middle age) is that for the first time in my life,…
- I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this…
- I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that…
- I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be…
- Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense…
- Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate…
- I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing…
- What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy
- Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety…
- Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard…
- Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look…
- Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of…
- It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who…
- Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life...
- He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle