Tranquille River Quotes & Sayings

You only get one life. And before you know it, it'll be over. You'll go to sleep one day in your twenties, then wake up in your fifties. The purpose of life isn't to sit around waiting for something to happen on a wing and prayer; you have to make it happen. You can spend your whole life searching for unsolved mysteries or waiting for someone to fall in love with you, but at the end of your life you'll realize you've wasted your time. You've missed all of the beauty in the world in search of a vague dream or an answer to a question that has none. The purpose of life isn't to wait for things to fall into your lap. The purpose of life is to live. — Brent Saltzman

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective. — Jessie Redmon Fauset

Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him? — Brother Lawrence

My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's. — Brooke Shields

The world's going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era. — Bill Nye

Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly. — Mary Renault

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life. — Taylor Swift