Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Calvin

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

Joel Fuhrman

Permanent results only come from permanent changes in lifestyle and diet style. You don't get permanently well unless you permanently change the way you live.

Tom Perrotta

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

Marianne Williamson

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

Martin Freeman

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

John Piper

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

Martin Luther

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

Marilu Henner

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

Elaine Stritch

And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!

Edith Hamilton

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

Eckhart Tolle

On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is remarkable how liberating it feels to be able to see that your thoughts are just thoughts and that they are not 'you' or 'reality.' For instance, if you have the thought that you have to get a certain number of things done today and you don't recognize it as a thought but act as if it's the 'the truth,' then you have created a reality in that moment in which you really believe that those things must all be done today.

Jon Anderson

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

Jim Valvano

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

Harvey Mackay

our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read

Maya Angelou

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape

Maya Angelou

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Maya Angelou

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

Maya Angelou

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Maya Angelou

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Pat Metheny

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Paula Malcomson

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

Jonathan Sacks

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

Toni Servillo

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

Simon Sinek

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Simon Pegg

If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Robert A. Heinlein

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

Riley Keough

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

Peter Capaldi

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.

James Altucher

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

Henry David Thoreau

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.