#lives

When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#days #dizzying #experimental #feel #female

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#also #because #big #dignity #erased

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#irrelevant #lives #our #our lives #shall

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#daily #destiny #easily #imagination #level

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#american children #children #dominant #factor #lives

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives? ↗

— William H. Wharton

#govern #knowledge #knows #laws #lives

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#journey #just #know #lives #living

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#alter #cannot #children #consequences #control

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#able #being #concentrate #difference #does

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#lasts #make #outlives #us