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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. — Jean Anouilh

Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience. — Shepherd Hoodwin

... feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them. — Louisa May Alcott

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story. — Diane Setterfield

Liz looked back and counted the bodies, all those lives she had ruined simply by existing. So she chose to stop existing. — Amy Zhang

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott

As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters. — Erin Blakemore

We can't go on apologizing all our lives, you know. — Nick Hornby

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors. — Frederick Buechner

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature. — Dale E. Turner

Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. — Annie Proulx

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life
he is so busy recreating it. — Anne Sexton

Beth's not on that train?"
"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in. — J.R. Ward

That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways. — Catherynne M Valente

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. — Justin Cronin

I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them. — Kathryn Albright

Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love — Rumi

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell. — Darrell Calkins

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives. — Solange Knowles

Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives — Sunday Adelaja

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives. — Doris Roberts

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. — David Mitchell

We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business. — Jo Nesbo

How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives? — Kyo Maclear

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all ... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. — L.M. Montgomery

We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer. — Andrew Kaufman

Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives. — Thomas S. Monson

Voicing out your concerns in a calmly way is a great thing to do and it helps and saves lives of those who can't speak up. — Euginia Herlihy

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves. — Christopher Moore

But I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others. — Jimmy Buffett

God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives. — Bryan Chapell

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves. — Cormac McCarthy

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books. — Chrys Fey

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by ... not paying attention? — Joshua Foer

The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish. — Francine Rivers

If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world — Dorothy Nolte

The young have hopes and dreams, while the old hold the remains of them in their hands and wonder what has happened to their lives. — Tan Twan Eng

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — Anton Chekhov

Their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter. — Charles Bukowski

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on. — Greg Iles

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer. — Arda Collins