Best Lifelong Proverbs

291 Lifelong quotes by 263 unique authors

Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even… — C.S. Lewis
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true… — Sarah Orne Jewett
I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for… — Alice Munro
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the… — Sarah Vowell
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. — Elisabeth Elliot
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner… — Milan Kundera
... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true. — David James Duncan
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest… — Max Brooks
I got a washed out version of Mom’s curls and a better copy of Dad’s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up… — Lilith Saintcrow
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the… — Janet Frame
You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to… — James Joyce
It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers. — Ilona Andrews
I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every… — John Green
I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to… — Anne Stuart
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was… — Eric Jerome Dickey
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
There would be no wedding for me. No bridal hopes. Not with Seth, not with anyone. Those things were lost to me forever. There was… — Richelle Mead
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally given… — Anne Lamott
Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur… — Tom Clancy
A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure. — Lilian Jackson Braun
Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class. — Zig Ziglar

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