842 Quotes About Life-changing

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape

I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.