Best Whole Life Quotes

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

I’d rather live my life knowing that I’m not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby – take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They’re the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that’s why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That’s what he gets from rowing.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

Funny, isn’t it, how your whole life goes by while you think you’re only planning the way you’re going to live it?

You understand Teacher, don’t you, that when you have a mother who’s an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don’t know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

Working with Bernardo Bertolucci was one of the greatest highlights of my whole life. It was such an incredible opportunity for me.

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

I don’t like my whole life dragged out. I don’t want anyone to know about me, because I don’t think I’m very interesting… I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

My whole life has been dedicated to public service.

This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life. A President who’s not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.

Opportunities present themselves to me. That’s how my whole life has been pretty much. I’ve been lucky.

I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn’t–and who knew that you could never take it off.

If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

I never thought I’d write, because I’d never written anything in my whole life.

I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I’m out, I’m out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

I’ve sung my whole life. I’ve taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I’ve never really sung professionally at all.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

…but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that’s what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you’re a genius.

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I’ve looked up to my whole life.

Faith don’t come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He’s so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it’s for only one day or one week.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We’d like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.