Lifelong Advice Quotes & Sayings

The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger. — Herbert Hoover

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people. — Timothy Thomas Fortune

My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on the habit of writing and it will become a lifelong one. And find a place to write where you are physically comfortable. You can't concentrate if you aren't. Ernest Hemingway could only write standing up, and Truman Capote could only write lying down! — Cassandra Clare

There are many more books to read, when will I finish reading? — Lailah Gifty Akita

For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together. — Robert C. Solomon

You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are so many books to read. What a paradise! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved. — Joseph J. Ellis

Conquer no man but thyself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not enough to survive, a lifelong love is all about thriving in a ministry-minded marriage that impacts others. — Gary Thomas

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! — H.L. Mencken

Knowledge is curiosity to know more. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we read, the more we discover. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under the
same roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge? — Michel De Montaigne

He settled his big hands on her hips. He let them slide slowly down to cup her ass which she had jammed into a Spanx hide and seek high rise panty. Before slipping on the slinky purple faux wrap dress that her daughter had given her after surviving being held at gunpoint together gift the prior fall. Stella was fairly sure she would enjoy the sensation of Goat's strong fingers kneading her flesh if it hadn't gotten numb in its fierce polyester lycra prison hours ago. — Sophie Littlefield

We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad. — Bradley A. Blakeman

Three great actions; explore, experiment and experience. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it. — Chris Fabry

But calm is precisely what is absent from love's classroom. There is simply too much on the line. The "student" isn't merely a passing responsibility; he or she is a lifelong commitment. Failure will ruin existence. No wonder we may be prone to lose control and deliver cack-handed, hasty speeches which bear no faith in the legitimacy or even the nobility of the act of imparting advice. And no wonder, too, if we end up achieving the very opposite of our goals, because increasing levels of humiliation, anger, and threat have seldom hastened anyone's development. Few of us ever grow more reasonable or more insightful about our own characters for having had our self-esteem taken down a notch, our pride wounded, and our ego subjected to a succession of pointed insults. We simply grow defensive and brittle in the face of suggestions which sound like mean-minded and senseless assaults on our nature rather than caring attempts to address troublesome aspects of our personality. Had — Alain De Botton

I think I have always had the misguided sense that worry and fear serve as an insurance policy of sorts. On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say that it doesn't work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place. — Emily Giffin

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind. — Djuna Barnes

Explore the endless possibilities in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker. — Christopher Moore

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us. — Seneca The Younger

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Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy