- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have many 'I wish I could.' I live a pretty good life. I'm pretty psyched on my life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Marriage' was not that big a deal, to be honest! I mean, it makes life easier for technical reasons: insurance, next-of-kin stuff, joint tax filing, etc. The real shocker was falling in love with the man I'm married to. I was 32 when we met, and I had really never been in a functional relationship before, had never been deeply in love.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
- Commencement
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She'd given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a 'Life' write-up of her own.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at somebody like Margaret Sanger, who was married young and had kids but then left her husband and wound up living a kind of single life as she got into the founding of what would become Planned Parenthood.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020