Lives Rather Quotes
- I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar
- 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… — Elisabeth Eaves
- The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may… — Alain de Botton
- Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll be… — Aubrey de Grey
- Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role… — Parker J. Palmer
- No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance… — Art Buchwald
- We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s… — Andre Gide
- Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying… — Dan Buettner
- Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go. — Alain de Botton
- If we learn to concentrate on the happiness that people have brought into our lives rather than living in the suffering that people have caused… — Prem Tihan Shafiq
- The world would be such a better place if people would worry about what is going on in their own lives, rather than worrying about… — Nishan Panwar